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It's interesting that the poorest states are the most obese. It used to be that if you were poor, you didn't get enough to eat. Now you can afford junk food but not nutrition.
It is scary and I don't get it. It sucks to be fat. I am 6'0". In 2002 I weighed an ugly 245. Having had enough I lost 60 pounds in 9 months and 5 years later I'm still 185. It sucks, I love to eat. But, ultimately, it's a choice and has little to do with anything else. Pujo, I don't eat "rich" I just don't eat that much. What I eat costs me about $2 a day until I get home - then I have a few different things, something like a plate of frozen meatballs, except for rare exceptions I spend about $5 a day on food.
It is scary and I don't get it. It sucks to be fat. I am 6'0". In 2002 I weighed an ugly 245. Having had enough I lost 60 pounds in 9 months and 5 years later I'm still 185. It sucks, I love to eat. But, ultimately, it's a choice and has little to do with anything else. Pujo, I don't eat "rich" I just don't eat that much. What I eat costs me about $2 a day until I get home - then I have a few different things, something like a plate of frozen meatballs, except for rare exceptions I spend about $5 a day on food.
The biggest problem is the price of fresh produce. It costs much less to eat at McDonald's twice a day than it does to buy ingredients to prepare a proper meal. If you're middle class it's different, but if you're broke $5 vs $15 makes a big difference.
The biggest problem is the price of fresh produce. It costs much less to eat at McDonald's twice a day than it does to buy ingredients to prepare a proper meal. If you're middle class it's different, but if you're broke $5 vs $15 makes a big difference.
Well I'm not sure a lot of people would LIKE to eat what I do - heck, I don't - but it costs me about $5 a day; MAYBE $7 on the high side.
Well I'm not sure a lot of people would LIKE to eat what I do - heck, I don't - but it costs me about $5 a day; MAYBE $7 on the high side.
By your own admission, you're not a particularly healthy eater, so I don't know that people should be looking to emulate you. The point still stands that cheap food offers way more calories and less nutrition than average priced food.
It's interesting that the poorest states are the most obese. It used to be that if you were poor, you didn't get enough to eat. Now you can afford junk food but not nutrition.
Another way to look at it is that red states suffer from gluttony.
By your own admission, you're not a particularly healthy eater, so I don't know that people should be looking to emulate you. The point still stands that cheap food offers way more calories and less nutrition than average priced food.
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder I guess. By classic measures, no it's not healthy. However it leaves me at a healthy weight, feeling good and with good blood results. If that's not healthy then so be it . . . I choose not to believe nutritionalists myself as my body tells me otherwise
You think this is about affording nutrition? That the poor states are fat because poor old elmer has to eat MCDonalds #9's to save a buck? Look at the map over time. In the 80's people weren't nearly as fat, and over time, people have gotten incredibly worse. That's for the entire country. This is about a gluttonous, moronic, welfare society that is all about a fast pace, instant gratification, drive thru, 20 minutes or less, 30 pack, wide mouth, 16 ounce, jumbo size, family size, king size, super size mindset. We're LAAAAAZY and gluttonous. Look at Michael Moore, can he not afford to eat nutritiously? He's as fat as it gets. Go to Chillis, or Polcari's, and see how they have "curb side pick up". People are so lazy, gluttonous, and slobish, that when they order their super sized taco pizza with extra lard and cholestoral, they can't park their car and go inside to get it. They need somebody to bring it to them. Go to a mall, and look at the people walking around, and tell me that all the fat people buying a new XBOX, sneakers, or gallons of make up, can't afford to eat chicken instead of a #9 supersized. This is all about attitude, and ideology, and not about finances. Sure, maybe for some it might be, but to me, eating nutirtiously isn't about money. It's about effort.
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The biggest problem is the price of fresh produce. It costs much less to eat at McDonald's twice a day than it does to buy ingredients to prepare a proper meal. If you're middle class it's different, but if you're broke $5 vs $15 makes a big difference.
That's nonsense. Individually it's $5 per person twice a day your saying. Give me $10 a day, and I'll eat like a king all week long. People are lazy, and don't want to sacrafice. It's like losing wait, all you need is effort. Americans always want it their way, which is the easy way out.
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