Reply #106: but do they "turn to" it out of convenience or because they have [View All]

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no other choice? I think there are very very few people who truly have no other choice but to buy junk food instead of real staples. Some of that is clearly education, and not the cost of food.

I'm not trying to be contrarian and say that I believe all people have the same food purchasing choices, or even the same values and education about what to buy and how to prepare a healthy meal, but to just throw hands in air and say low income is a direct cause of obesity is factually incorrect. "For the most part" I would say that poor purchasing and nutritional choices result in obesity regardless of income.

And face it, diet alone controls nothing, and weight/girth alone are not an accurate indicator of physical health. It's just that I think people throw in the towel at the slightest excuse and worse, make absurd claims that people who aren't living at the poverty level have an advantage in the weight department, which makes anyone who disagrees "insensitive" at best. A box of tea bags can make 25 gallons of tea for $2.00 bucks, yet people claim that one of their dietary "staples" is soda, and then they buy the Sam's gazillion-pack of Dr. Pepper and complain that brocolli is too expensive.

Heh, I used to live at St. Nicholas & Amsterdam, then at Sickles when I was a starving student in Manhattan, before finally Movin' On Down, To the West Side, To a Dee Lux Brownstone, In the Sky-hihghghghghgh. :P