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Culture aside, it's an economic issue too. When someone is in a grocery shop and sees beef/chicken/pork/fish at $0.99/lb and sees a bunch of spinach (< 1 lb by

Culture aside, it's an economic issue too. When someone is in a grocery shop and sees beef/chicken/pork/fish at $0.99/lb and sees a bunch of spinach (< 1 lb by weight) for $1+, what are you gonna buy?

gorena 11y ago
But you just have to eat less beef - spinach isn't inherently obesity-preventing, if you somehow eat 2500 calories of spinach (I mean, good luck, but...) but only expend 2000 per day, you'll gain weight!
- msandford 11y ago
  That's almost exactly what cows do. Eat 10-20lbs of grass per day and gain a couple of pounds of weight. Of course, cows are "designed" to do this, while people seemingly are not.
- logfromblammo 11y ago
  2500 kcal of spinach is... (searching web)... 10.8 kg. That's... that's just... wow. 85 liters of spinach. That's like eating more than half of a short (36") bale of hay. ~So yeah, not inherently obesity-preventing.~ The downside is that you will be consuming about 80 grams of oxalic acid. The LD-Lo is 600 mg/kg, meaning that unless you are 135 kg (300 lbs), that much spinach could possibly kill you. Aside from bursting your guts from the inside from the sheer volume of it, that is. I guess the steaks just kill you more slowly.
- ashwinaj 11y ago
  I didn't literally mean replace meat with spinach. It was an example to show that vegetables are more expensive than meat.
shanemhansen 11y ago
I think you're right about the economics, but I'd hold off on blaming the meat. While the article mentions meat being more expensive, the rest of the article is filled with quotes like "snacking all day on bits of burger and pizza" and "drink lots of atole – a heavily sweetened corn-based drink". All pretty carb heavy. The article mentions that the dietary changes made are: "eats fast food just once a week, cooks more vegetables, has cut down the number of tortillas".

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Culture aside, it's an economic issue too. When someone is in a grocery shop and sees beef/chicken/pork/fish at $0.99/lb and sees a bunch of spinach (< 1 lb by

by ashwinaj 11y ago

gorena 11y ago
But you just have to eat less beef - spinach isn't inherently obesity-preventing, if you somehow eat 2500 calories of spinach (I mean, good luck, but...) but only expend 2000 per day, you'll gain weight!
- msandford 11y ago
  That's almost exactly what cows do. Eat 10-20lbs of grass per day and gain a couple of pounds of weight. Of course, cows are "designed" to do this, while people seemingly are not.
- logfromblammo 11y ago
  2500 kcal of spinach is... (searching web)... 10.8 kg. That's... that's just... wow. 85 liters of spinach. That's like eating more than half of a short (36") bale of hay. ~So yeah, not inherently obesity-preventing.~ The downside is that you will be consuming about 80 grams of oxalic acid. The LD-Lo is 600 mg/kg, meaning that unless you are 135 kg (300 lbs), that much spinach could possibly kill you. Aside from bursting your guts from the inside from the sheer volume of it, that is. I guess the steaks just kill you more slowly.
- ashwinaj 11y ago
  I didn't literally mean replace meat with spinach. It was an example to show that vegetables are more expensive than meat.
shanemhansen 11y ago
I think you're right about the economics, but I'd hold off on blaming the meat. While the article mentions meat being more expensive, the rest of the article is filled with quotes like "snacking all day on bits of burger and pizza" and "drink lots of atole – a heavily sweetened corn-based drink". All pretty carb heavy. The article mentions that the dietary changes made are: "eats fast food just once a week, cooks more vegetables, has cut down the number of tortillas".