| Mr Puggsly said: Alright, there are some relatively cheap options that can be nutritious. Sandwiches and piece of fruit are more nutritious than the crap people often eat. However, not much cheaper than fast food that can feed a family. The types of food people eat definitely plays a roll in obesity. I mean a equal quantity of nutritious foods may not have the same impact on your body as pizza or McDonalds. Ultimately, raising taxes on unhealthy foods is not the solution as wfz suggested and certainly doesn't benefit the poor. |
Well, it's true that equal amounts of good and bad food have different effects on the body, but I don't think obesity is really one of those. All calories aren't quite equal, but weight gain is still a simple matter of caloric intake minus caloric expenditure. Eating too much healthy food will still make you fat, and eating a moderate amount of junk food will still leave you with a healthy weight (though perhaps with cholestoral problems). Probably the biggest culprit in obesity is not even food but soda, which is the equivalent of guzzling a cake's worth of carbohydrates, and thanks to all the sodium it contains it only really makes you thirstier, causing you to drink more soda because of the illusion that it's a thirst quencher simply because it's cold and wet.
I don't agree with taxes, of course. But socialized health care does set up this awful situation where we are all forced to be responsible for one another, making this kind of stuff inevitable.
