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There’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
by peatmoss 9y ago
There’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.