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On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 09:12:30 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Friday, August 2, 2013 9:11:51 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:54:17 -0700, jps wrote:

Most of the problem with obesity has to do with income and the cost of

real food and the rampant availability of fast food in cities.

It's cheap to stuff your face with fast food crap. Going to a store

to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat is freakin' expensive.

The lower our income, the worse our diet. You can't even feed your

family crap on minimum wage, which is becoming the case for more and

more Americans. Average age of fast food workers at McDonalds is 29.

Welcome to the new America, where money is held by the rich and the

rest of the country can go **** themselves.

It is obvious you don't eat a lot of fast food.

For the price of McDonalds for 4 ($20), I can buy a whole chicken ($6)

a few potatoes ($2) and a package of fresh broccoli ($2) and still

have $10 left over.

I won't even try to explain how much rice and beans that will buy.

People go to fast food joints because they are lazy.

I was behind a gal in the groce3ry check-out and she had a cart load of chips, soda, candy,various other snacks, a gallon of milk and some sugar laced cereal, but nothing else substantial.

The bill was about 60+ bucks. She paid for it with a WIC card....

This shows that low-income doesn't 'force' people to eat unhealthy stuff....
.

My sister raised 5 kids without a whole lot of money.
They ate well
The difference was she understood you pay for convenience and usually
convenient food is not healthy food.

I think a big part of the problem is people do not understand basic
nutrition and what foods will fill those needs. I learned from my
sister if you don't have a lot of money, the grocery store is a better
resource than eating out and if you know what to buy, you can get a
lot of food for not that much money.

Unfortunately you still have to cook it. Mc Donalds will just push it
out the window.

They spend too much time on how to put on a condom and have safe sex rather than teaching the
kids about eating right.