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I understand the article is more about feeding in mass. However, how hard is it to eat healthy? I don't understand why people have trouble here. It is fairly
by jriot 9y ago
I understand the article is more about feeding in mass.
However, how hard is it to eat healthy?
I don't understand why people have trouble here. It is fairly simple concept we can apply logic to:
if food is prepackaged:
if food has ingredients you can't pronounce:
bad for you
else:
probably bad for you
else:
good for you
Do I eat salads everyday? No. I get my chickens from a local farm up the road, killed the day I buy them. I fry them up with collard greens on the side. The collard greens are made from the pig I bought from the same farm and had slaughtered - its understand collard greens are made with bacon slow cooking all day.
Does everyone have access to these farms? No. Though you can still buy quality food at the super-market.
I look at people's carts, and its full of soda, chips, frozen food, Starbucks coffee cans etc... Literally none of the food requires any type of cooking - heating in the oven or microwave does not equate to cooking. Plus this stuff is not cheap, chips are $3, soda is $3 - 5 a 12 pack etc... Drink whole milk at $2 a gallon or brew ice tea at $0.50 a gallon. Buy popcorn kernels at $8 a bag (expensive from local farmer, $3-4 is more likely), melt Kerrygold butter pour over top and add salt.
If you do not know how to cook I recommend starting with 'The Essentials of Italian Cooking' by Marcella Hazan. You can make sauce and pasta (not required) from scratch in under an hour. Inexpensive, fair better tasting and healthy. Most recipes are simple and teaches you how to cook - Italian cooking at least.
- mattmanser 9y agoThis thread is full of victim blaming. The simple, completely obvious, counter-argument to this is that if it were that easy, every person would do it. There would be no obese people. Virtually no-one wants to be fat. Instead the problem is getting worse. Telling people to eat less and move more is simply not working.
- jriot 9y agoThere are no victims because it is a personal choice. If you want to be fat and lead a horrible life, so be it. Eating healthy is very simple. People research which TV to buy, what television show to watch, what political news story to be enraged about etc... But can't spend five minutes how to eat properly? There are no victims here, just people unwilling to accept responsibility for their choices.
- mattmanser 9y agoAgain with the victim blaming, no matter how many different ways you say the same thing, you're completely wrong. It's not a personal choice, it's like claiming smoking is a personal choice. 40 years ago it really wasn't, it was a social normal, and then when it became clear how badly the tobacco companies had misled the world, it took a lot of struggle and effort and huge public policy initiatives to reduce smoking. A large section of society has been attacked by companies for profit using lies, addictive substances and manipulation and simply saying "stop smoking" or "start spending inordinate amounts of time researching every thing you eat to find out if it has added sugar, even though it's presented to you as healthy", didn't/hasn't worked. That you're still trying to peddle the obesity crisis as a moral failing of some huge swathe of the population is really sad and disappointing.
- jriot 9y agoYou are completely wrong. What you eat is a personal choice, such as smoking is personal choice. Regardless of societal norms, it is still a personal choice. Not every issue in society requires a victim. Victim for example is someone who was raped because they didn't have a choice in the manner. Going to the store, and choosing which items to purchase does not equate to a victim. Just because a large portion of society makes poor choices does not equate to a large portion of society being victims. If all of society jumped off a bridge, are they all victims?