This thread is a fine example of why VGchartz is the only videogame forum I still visit... This is a mix of odd and hilarious stuff that no other gaming forum would ever post or discuss.

Actually, its still going to be much cheaper.

You're not going to just eat a pizza or burgers and be done with it in 90% of cases. You're going to get other items with it - chips, pop, breadsticks, fries and so on. Those things add up and become expensive.

Or you could, you know, make your own healthy pizza for a fraction of the price. Its not like these kinds of food are somehow cheaper to buy prepared than they are to make at home with healthier, homemade ingredients.

Heck, look at french fries. They're about 10x more expensive to buy than to make, because potatoes are very, very cheap.

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.

Fast food is expensive as fuck on a per meal basis.

Eating at McDonalds Costs me a good 6-7 dollars per meal.

Making my own food... is like ~3-4 bucks per meal... and i could make it for a LOT cheaper if I went with stuff like Lentil stews.

Junk food is cheaper on a per calorie basis, but a per calorie basis doesn't really mean shit to anybody who lives in the real world.

I mean, a candy bar has 3-4 times the calroies as an Apple....  and isn't near as filling.

Depends what you get. Whenever I would eat fast food I often get dollar menu items. Those combos are expensive and often have more calories than a person should consume in a single day.

Even more than soda, I feel wheat foods is the biggest cause of obesity.

You can hit 2000 calories by consuming wheat foods quickly and I'm sure many over weight people are doing just that. However, you would have to drink over a gallon of soda to hit 2000 calories.

Your suggestion of making healthy food cheaper is no less leftwing, it's just a different form of market manipulation.

Of course in the USA the left_posing_as_right farm subsidies distort the food market. But that isn't a problem here as we have no agricultural subsidies, not import tariffs.

A dollar menu menu hamburger isn't going to fill you up worth anything.

If it did.... you ccould make a cheaper meal yourself.

I mean what do you get?   3 items off the 99 cent menu?  It'd still be easier and cheaper to make food yourself.

http://www.allyou.com/food/supercheap-meals/meals-under-one-dollar-00400000047058/

http://www.myrecipes.com/convenience/budget-recipes/10-classic-dishes-under-250-10000001949246/

Seriously, you'd be shocked how cheap food is, espeically at the right supermarket.