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Until we can get past the fast-cheap-easy mindset Food Swamps will continue to dominate the landscape of many towns. Slowing down and putting more importance on
by dbyington 9y ago
Until we can get past the fast-cheap-easy mindset Food Swamps will continue to dominate the landscape of many towns. Slowing down and putting more importance on what we eat should be a priority.
- peatmoss 9y agoThere’s also a major interaction with poverty. From a dollars per calorie perspective, fast food can be a great bargain... at the expense of nutrition of course. Similarly, healthy foods can be a luxury from a time-to-prepare perspective. Toasting walnuts, chopping kale, and dicing pears for a totally rockin’ macro nutrient side salad is something that someone with two jobs just isn’t going to do. Why are the fast, unhealthy things cheap? Some of it is government agricultural subsidy structure. Some of it is comparative shelf life. There are probably others as well.
- dbyington 9y agonail->head Cheap-fast options put money into the pockets of those who provide those options. The markup is ridiculous. The staff make little to nothing. It wasn't until the 2015 Dietary Recommendations for Americans that any agency that fresh food is better, in many ways, than packaged foods. This was a glimmer of hope. But, while the American government continues to benefit corporations and not individuals we will probably see little improvement.
- staplers 9y agoI like to think of nutrition as education. The more time you spend working hands-on with the food you put in your body, the greater the understanding for and tendency to seek nutritionally-rich ingredients. Following this mindset leads to better farming practices and land management as well. However it's important to recognize the privilege of those able to do so. Our society would greatly benefit from better nutritional education.