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Want to lose weight? Poverty can help!
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It's often cheaper to buy fastfood than healthy food
It is a fair point, being obese and poor can definitely be a a horrific feedback loop to get out of.
In developed countries anyways, you don't really see it in places where food is scarce, of course.
This is just wrong, the tiny island nation of Nauru have a huge obesity problem as the only food they can get in any decent quantity are preprocessed food with very low nutritional value.
I don't know about that. A combo meal at McDonald's is inching closer to 15$ in a lot of places. You can go down to the grocery store and get a good amount of food for that much. Healthy doesn't necessarily mean only the expensive organic, free range, non GMO whatever foods are worth eating.
It's more than just the monetary investment though. It's time and energy spent creating healthy meals, that if you're working 12-14 hr days just becomes too much to handle.
It takes roughly 5 min and 1$ to scramble up a few eggs. It doesn't need to take an hour to prepare a decent affordable meal at home.
It takes much more effort to make a healthy well-rounded meal than just scrambling up "a few eggs". I'm happy you have enough time, energy, and physical ability to spend an hour making dinner, but a lot of people don't.
Some have multiple jobs, kids, disabilities, ect. Others live in food deserts where it's impossible—or at least very difficult—to find cheap, healthy food. Not to mention the people who were never taught how to cook, and would have to spend even more time, energy, (and very possibly wasted food) on learning how.
This is coming from someone who can and does cook cheap, healthy meals all of the time.
I'm not claiming to spend an hour making dinner. I haven't ate fast food in a year mainly because it takes 20min waiting in line and costs way too much for junk unhealthy food. I often eat just scrambled eggs for meals because it is fast and easy. You sure as hell aren't getting a balanced meal at a fast food chain. You can make excuses for eating that unhealthy junk all you want.
Gee, straw man, you somehow wrote an entire paragraph while ignoring literally all of my points 👍
The points keep changing. Went from cheaper to buy fast food to takes more effort to make food to it needs to be well rounded. The goal posts keep moving. It's been my experience that it takes less time and money to make a healthy meal at home. I don't know why that's a problem to you.
The fact that I had several points (in a single comment, mind you) does not mean that they keep changing. I suggest you revisit what moving goalposts actually means.
That's been my experience, too. Like I've already said, I frequently cook cheap, healthy meals at home. I rarely eat fast food.
But my original points aren't centered around my—or your—personal experience; we're not the only two people who exist. Everyone has varying degrees of resources and ability.
My comments are in reply to it's cheeper to buy fast food than healthy food. I pointed out that's not always the case. I'm not the one using the disabled as a strawman to attack anyone's point.
TIL that merely mentioning the struggles and limitations that disabled people face—as a disabled person—within a seemingly cordial discussion about peoples' access and ability to cook healthy meals means I'm literally ATTACKING the point of the person I'm replying to.
Please discuss that under a comment relating to the poor overworked disabled peoples access to food. The topic at hand was is it cheaper to buy fast food or healthy food before you railroaded it. Blocked.
I'm about to eat my fourth or fifth McDonald's free double cheeseburger so far of this month just because someone on the local baseball team got a double and they give away a free one in the app to anyone who claims it in the state the next day.
With promotions and deals (which are pretty much always going on) it's actually tough to get cheaper than eating fast food a lot of the time.
That and food deserts. A lot of poor places in the US lack easy access to nutritious food.
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I wouldn't say cheaper, but it's definitely easier.
If time is money, than fastfood and processed foods are way cheaper than healthy options that require preparing and cleaning of pots/pans etc
Stopping to buy fast food vs making food in one go for several days would make the difference a lot smaller. If you order online, especially if you have a recurring order, then fast food again gains a lot.
Fast food implies prepared food. What healthy prepared food are you thinking of? It's generally much cheaper. Ops post makes no sense. Poverty is not inversely proportional to weight at all
I'd be surprised if that was actually true. I think what really matters is how much time and effort making your own food takes vs the speed and simplicity of buying fast food.
Price, time and effort can be minimized by making a large amount of the food in one guy that you eat for some days, but apparently some people hate eating the same food two (or more) days in a row, which, okay(?), I guess that's one reason not to do it.
You can still lose weight if you eat unhealthy shit. Like I know people that eat McDonald’s everyday yet they ain’t fat. While you don’t get all the necessary nutrients from fast food being unhealthy but not overweight is still better than being fat.
Why do you say that? I guess that "unhealthy" isn't very specific and could mean a lot of things. But health issues that are caused by malnutrition can certainly be worse than being fat. It just depends on the individual situation, I would think.