badgenome said:
There's nothing superficial about it. Body weight is a function of just that, and no amount of navel gazing and none of your paranoiac fantasies about sinister corporations will ever change metabolic science. If people have access to more and cheaper food than they did in the Olden Tymes when they had a harder time meeting their daily recommended calories but at least we weren't plagued by the likes of McDonald's, they will tend to be fatter. We do, and we are. That there isn't cheap healthy food available is just incredibly false. Even dollar stores sell all kinds of healthy food. You can get salmon primavera. FOR A DOLLAR. That people don't avail themselves of it and prefer to guzzle high fructose corn syrup is another matter, but as we (or at least I) already know, fat people typically lack the initiative to better themselves. |
1st paragraph.
Who's arguing that that is wrong? I commend you for trying to make it seem like my stance is going against science, but I'm actually not doubting it at all. I'm am questioning your motivation to turn a complex problem into a simple one. It is not because we have more access to food that we are overweight but that because the food that we are "allowed access to" is very low quality food. This is a highly complex problem because it deals with many hidden costs. There are many many costs associated with food that are indirectly changing the pricing. Example: A burger at mcdonalds is a dollar and has about 600 calories and takes about 30 seconds to make.
Getting food involves going to the store (transportation costs), shopping (time costs), bringing it home (energy costs), cooking it (time and energy costs). And this is just one aspect of the problem. Other problems include education, cultural indoctrination by advertising, sugar dependance, stress levels, food industry, etc etc. Simply saying "oh you just eat less and work out more" is a good advice from a dad in the 1950s.
2. Please, I've been broke enough to shop at dollar stores, and a majority of their food is (1) Not a dollar (you would know if you actually shopped them that "dollar stores" is really just a tagline meaning very cheap) and (2) disgusting, or (3) very unhealthy. Where's the veggies dood!? Salmon, hmm sure thats a good third of a meal maybe once a week. Let's see some other examples.
