Someone earlier in this thread said something to this effect:
A lot of impoverished people are fat. This is because the only cheap food there is is very bad for you and the stuff that is good for you is way too expensive.
No offense intended, but....
Completely and totally false. This is used as an excuse by people to cover for either laziness or ignorance.
How much $$$ does it take to eat fast food for 1 week? Even cheap, dollar menu crap? Minimum $3, $4, maybe up to $7 per meal, per person? Let's call it $5, and say you only do this 1 time per day per week, on average, family of four. That's $20 per day, $140 per week, $560 a month. I know plenty of "busy people" who eat more fast food than that. Not because they have to, but they opt for easy and quick.
You wanna think about how much rice, dried beans, vegetables, white meat pork and chicken, etc you can buy for $560 a month? Let me tell you, and I know this frome experience, you can feed a family of 4 for a half or a third of that $$ figure per month if you're smart and willing to get off your butt and get in the kitchen instead of sitting in a drive-thru once or twice a day. I keep track of our grocery budget because I do almost 100% of that shopping, and 100% of the cooking.... we rarely ever eat fast food, or order carry-out. Almost everything is home cooked, and nutritionally complete. I cook larger quantities than we need for one meal, for economy, because it is cheaper to cook once and eat 2-3 times. Most of our meals end up at less than $1 per serving in actual cost. You know the only thing all of this requires?
Effort on the part of the provider......
And there-in lie the problems that cause "poor" people to be obese or overweight..... one part ignorance, one part laziness....
"poor people are fat because they can't afford healthy food."
Now THAT is a LIE if there ever was one.
