oldschoolfool said:
Kasz216 said:
Eating healthy costing more is a myth.
It's not because of money that people don't eat healthy. It's time.
Well and lifestyle.
When you spend 40 hours a week working a shitty job, the last thing you wanna do is spend another 5-10 hours cooking on top of your other chores.
As for doing something about it... the simple answer is. We shouldn't.
People should have the right to get as fat as they want too... it's their lives they're screwing with. The government shouldn't try and coax them into being healthy, outside of informing them of the problems with their bad lifestyles and possibly removing laws that restrict what someone can do with weight based issues.
Afterall if you can't charge someone based on weight on a plane, or for healthcare, or even pay the same to people who live unhealthy (vs it being genetic) in welfare plans... then it's costing everybody instead of just the person who is that weight like it should.
Of course it's easy for me to say, considering i don't live as healthy as i should, but still stay thin.
Either way... nobody should be stopped from making any bad health or life choices they want to make, but at the same time, said effects should lay mostly if not completely on them.
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/ ------It's not a myth.
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The most appropriate way to describe the claim that eating healthy is expensive is that it is a half-truth. In absolute terms, it is difficult to create a healthy meal for a similar cost to the unhealthy low cost high calorie foods; but what people assume this to mean is not true at all.
For less than the cost of feeding myself with a convenient take out or frozen meal I can feed a family of four a healthy meal; and I can guarantee that I can give people a healthy nutritionally balanced diet on (practically) any budget in western developed nations.
Basically, just because a daily intake of calories in raw sugar or butter costs $0.50 doesn't mean that eating a healthy balanced diet is expensive
