Anyone have a reasonable answer?
Great question...
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Answer: they're not poor.
And obviously they don't need government assistance if they can afford to eat themselves into obesity.
And obviously they don't need government assistance if they can afford to eat themselves into obesity.
Spamature
President
Answer
Volume 37, No. 4
USDA Defines Food Deserts
Food deserts are defined as parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers.
This has become a big problem because while food deserts are often short on whole food providers, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, instead, they are heavy on local quickie marts that provide a wealth of processed, sugar, and fat laden foods that are known contributors to our nation’s obesity epidemic. The food desert problem has in fact become such an issue that the USDA has outlined a map of our nation’s food deserts, which I saw on Mother Nature Network.
The Food Desert Locator is a part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move initiative to end childhood obesity.
According to the USDA: Part of the First Lady's Let's Move! initiative, the proposed Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) will expand the availability of nutritious food to food deserts—low-income communities without ready access to healthy and affordable food—by developing and equipping grocery stores, small retailers, corner stores, and farmers markets with fresh and healthy food.
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defines-food-deserts
D
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Answer
Volume 37, No. 4
USDA Defines Food Deserts
Food deserts are defined as parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers.
This has become a big problem because while food deserts are often short on whole food providers, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, instead, they are heavy on local quickie marts that provide a wealth of processed, sugar, and fat laden foods that are known contributors to our nation’s obesity epidemic. The food desert problem has in fact become such an issue that the USDA has outlined a map of our nation’s food deserts, which I saw on Mother Nature Network.
The Food Desert Locator is a part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move initiative to end childhood obesity.
According to the USDA: Part of the First Lady's Let's Move! initiative, the proposed Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) will expand the availability of nutritious food to food deserts—low-income communities without ready access to healthy and affordable food—by developing and equipping grocery stores, small retailers, corner stores, and farmers markets with fresh and healthy food.
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defines-food-deserts
Wow, you mean people might have to walk or take a bus more than a mile to get food? Bummer.
Hey, as soon as you can show obesity rates are higher in these "food deserts", you might be on to something. On the other hand, if anything, obesity rates would be lower.
Walking is good for you.
Oh and yeah, these poor people eat so much healthier when there's a Kroger nearby, eh?
Mr. Friscus
Governor
On this we will disagree.
Our food culture in America is horrendous. Cheaper food is more processed and synthetic, leading to worse effects on our bodies. You have to pay far more to avoid things like:
- High sodium
- Corn Syrup
- Palm Oil (Trans fat)
- Synthetic grains
- Artificial sweetners
Just to name a few. All of these are proven to have horrible effects on the body, as they have no idea how to process it. The body doesn't even fully realize it as "food".
And as far a chemicals go, unfortunately, you don't even have the right to know what chemicals are inside the food being sold, as Congress yet again voted against the rights of people in favor of the GMO Mansanto global activist plot.
So, being that unhealthy food is the easiest and cheapest to attain, it's no wonder the poor are becoming obese.
Spamature
President
I guess a while ago you would have said only the poor would do heroin until we saw the results of it become more readily accessible to people outside of poor areas incomes.
D
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That makes ZERO sense.
Next time at grocery store check out what those on Food Stamps buy verses what people purchase with their own money and you will realize why FS folks are obese.........
IMO, those on FS should be allowed to buy, pop/chips/sweets/beer
D
Deleted member 21794
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We will agree to disagree then. If one can afford to eat themselves into obesity, one can afford to eat less but healthier foods and not be obese.
I can and do eat on $5 per day sometimes. I like to challenge myself occasionally in that regard as I am a tightwad.
Example:
2.00 one pound turkey breast
0.75 two cups dried pinto beans
1.00 roma tomatoes
0.75 white onion
4.50 total for a day's worth of reasonably healthy chili, or add in 0.50 of another veggie to make it an even five bucks.
Problem solved.
I do the same with soup: lean chicken breast, rice or top ramen noodles, green onion, cilantro and a handful of frozen stir fry veggies.
Where there's a will, there's a way. Where there's food stamps and laziness, there's no will. I think hunger and pain are fantastic motivators.
4/15
Mayor
You must be one itty bitty old women.
Spamature
President
Make perfect sense. You made a statement about the poor if healthier food were conveniently available. I made a statement about the non poor and heroin being more conveniently available as a contrast.
I sometimes have to shop at Wal Mart and I never fail to see morbidly obese people with baskets full of junk food, sadly sometimes it's mom and dad and 2-3 kids, all huge with a couple of baskets of caloric suicide. When I need to go there I try to go early so most of the "Walmartins" are still home and not out and about
at a Food Lion awhile back, Man/Woman and 2 kids had 4 carts so loaded they couldn't hold anything else.........I just sat down and watched, 8 12 packs of pop, 8 bags of chips, 12 packs of cookies, 6 gallons of ice cream, so many snacks packs couldn't count them all, steak/pork chops/hamburger w/buns, chickens, shrimp, bacon/sausage, lunch meats/bread..........and paid for with FS..........(it's so easy to pick out the food stamp shoppers.
BTW: learned something on another trip..........4 or 5 20ish people setting in parking lot like they were at a movie and one came in and got 2 soft drinks, 2 bags of chips and YEP.............paid for it with FS.........back to the car in parking lot and it was like they were having a picnic!
They are neither poor nor oppressed. What they are (and it is by choice) is victims and the present government paints them that way.
It's just another Democrat lie.
D
Deleted member 21794
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Translation: I have no facts to rebut with.
D
Deleted member 21794
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So work more to burn the calories. Or buy less but healthier foods.
it's apparent you are wrong and know not what you post............I was so far down once in life I couldn't see up........didn't have the price of a 6 cent pop and I decided I'd make certain that didn't happen long, went to work and haven't looked back.........
"You must be one itty bitty old woman"
