From the looks of this pic, I'm guessing she spends a fair amount of time on her back...
Posted on 05/06/2008 12:11:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Food costs likely to boost obesity in poor Healthier choices will be even more out of reach, experts say.
By Alfred Lubrano
Inquirer Staff Writer Some of the fattest people in America are among the poorest.
And with food prices rising, the problem is likely to get worse.
Tianna Gaines, who describes herself as impoverished and obese, knows this. At 5-foot-3 and 242 pounds, she lives on public assistance in Frankford and eats junk food because it's cheap and more readily available in her neighborhood than carrots and apples.
Besides, said Gaines, 28, and a mother of three, "I don't have the money for Bally's fitness clubs. And I can't run here. They shoot you."
More poor people may suffer Gaines' fate, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicting food prices will be up 4.5 percent throughout the year, due to high fuel costs, weather problems, and the growing diversion of corn crops to make ethanol. Globally, prices will rise nearly 50 percent, according to the president's Council of Economic Advisers.
"The food crisis will make obesity and attendant diabetes even more rampant," said University of Washington epidemiologist Adam Drewnowski. "Fruits, vegetables and fish are becoming luxury goods completely out of reach of many people. Consumption of cheap food will only grow.
"Obesity is the toxic consequence of a failing economy."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
I bet the Haitians and Somalians wish they were obese.
Where is her husband? Is she a widow?
Even then you can eat decently. You can get carrots, spuds, cabbage, onions, lean poultry and frozen veggies there.
The left seems very concerned about the poor who are simultaneously starving and suffering the ill effects of obesity.
I meant to say :
I don’t know about HER but I’d go out and walk a whole lot more if my area was safer.
You can buy dry rice, canned fruit or vegetables, even fresh fruit on sale for far far less money than you need to spend stuffing yourself full of Ho-Hos, Yodels, Whoppers and Zingers.
Poor people are fat for the same reason they're poor - they're lazy and they make stupid decisions.
“I went vegan 3 months ago.”
You and I are in almost the same boat, except I still eat fish. I’ve saved a ton of money and lost 40 pounds in 4 months. When you start eating less, and start eating better foods, your brain changes. It desires less food. But if you’re stupid, well,, you’re just stoopid!
::sniffsniff: no arugula for the poo-err?? What kind of savages have we become!
/sarc
Maybe if she ran in a serpentine pattern she could dodge bullets and get exercise all at the same time.
5-foot-3 and 242 pounds???
That’s eating a lot of junk food. I think this, too, is “Bush’s fault”...
Any thought to just eating less and doing a bit of exercise?? Walking, stairs, etc.
I wonder if this is the thread about the dog food diet joke?
I don’t tell jokes well, but surely someone here knows it....
Well whatever you do, don’t suggest complex carbs to some of the posters here....they’ll rip you a new one. I say this from bitter experience.
...”if you are on food stamps, with a tv, DVD, and cell phone”...
These are “poor” people? Give me a break. The “poor” in Africa starve to death, the “poor” in the USA get fat. The fallacy of using the word “poor” to describe fat people who own cell phones, a DVD player, and TV is stunning in its ignorance of reality.
But you have to cook, and that takes time away from watching TV.
From the looks of this pic, I'm guessing she spends a fair amount of time on her back...
“You can buy dry rice, canned fruit or vegetables, even fresh fruit on sale...
But you have to cook, and that takes time away from watching TV.”
And popping out babies....which seems like it may have been her only exercise.
“Obesity is the toxic consequence of a failing economy.”
Every time I think that journalists cannot possibly become more stupid, they prove me wrong. Wow! I’m glad that natural selection insures that these clowns will never get near an equation. Would they manage to do so, the damage could be beyond calculation.
Prompted by heartstring-pulling PSA ads, I actually went to the local grocery store and compared the price of cat food with a basic healthy, if humble, people-food meal (pasta & veggies). The cat food was significantly more expensive.
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