On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 20:40:08 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
> sf wrote:
> >
> > Higher costs and limited supermarket access are cited as barriers to
> > good health. Of course, fair and amusement park food isn't mentioned
> > because as with recreational drugs, poor people can't afford it.
> >
> > Notice that the article says: Today **two-thirds** of Americans of all
> > classes are overweight or obese, with higher rates among the poor.
> > http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...r-food-health/
>
> A very large portion of the problem is education. Unless you learn how
> to cook and what constitutes a healthy diet you are unlikely to have a
> healthy diet. The cost angle is bogus, it has been shown time and again
> that healthy food does not cost more than unhealthy food, you just have
> to shop smarter to find healthy food at non-inflated prices. Indeed the
> ethnic markets which tend to be more accessible to the poor also tend to
> have better prices on a lot of food, including nice healthy non
> overpriced non organic produce. The problem is generational ignorance in
> the inner city minority areas, if your parent served unhealthy food and
> you dropped out of school you probably aren't going to learn how to
> cook, shop smart or formulate a healthy diet.

Are you old enough to remember when schools used to have classes,
called Home Economics, focused on that concept? They were told to
stop doing it in order to focus on college prep. So, are you
proposing that they should be vilified for not providing the classes
they were forced to stop?

WOW - it's Catch 22 all over again.


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