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In my experience people cook what their parents cooked. The immigrants from the middle east cooked middle eastern food, the native Europeans cooked European foo

In my experience people cook what their parents cooked. The immigrants from the middle east cooked middle eastern food, the native Europeans cooked European food etc. And those immigrants were very poor, so being poor is not really an excuse. Also they open their own stores stocking wares useful for middle eastern food in areas with lots of immigrants, so food deserts becomes opportunities for poor people to make a career. This means that there are basically no undeserved areas, if people live somewhere there will be ways to buy healthy food there. Why isn't this happening in the US? Do people suddenly forget how to cook when they move there? Or is it the strange zoning laws which prevents people from opening local stores with affordable groceries? Or is it some selection effect, like people who cares about food don't immigrate there? I mean, if fresh produce would sell then grocery stores would obviously stock them. And fresh produce sells very well basically everywhere else in the world, so what is the problem with USA?

castlecrasher2 7y ago
>Why isn't this happening in the US? My personal experience with this is that the cheap, unhealthy, sugar-loaded foods are the obvious choice when you don't know any better. I mean, they're delicious, and a lot of people are overweight, so why not? I've since learned that maintaining my weight is important, and that means I should end a meal being just hungry enough to eat more, and if I'm losing weight that means being hungry at the end of a meal, and proteins and healthy fat choices help me from getting so hungry I eat a whole tray of brownies. As for comparing this to other countries, I think the lifestyle of the US is more sedentary in comparison, and for me at least I get more hungry the less I do during the day. I sometimes eat because I'm bored, and that means sugary stuff. When I lived in Brazil and walked around all day I ate a lot but never really cared for sugary stuff the way I do now.
perl4ever 7y ago
There are plenty of regular grocery stores with produce and meat in the US, and also many stores that specialize in foods of immigrants. For instance, in a city of about 100,000, there are three grocery stores that sell produce within a mile or two of where I live, and three Asian (meaning east Asian) grocery stores, and at least one Indian grocery store. There's a Mexican grocery store not too far away, and I'm sure there are halal places too. A lot of people get produce at farmers' markets which are everywhere as well. You may not be aware of this, but writing articles that make absurd generalizations to get clicks and upset people is popular on the internet these days.

castlecrasher2 7y ago

>Why isn't this happening in the US? My personal experience with this is that the cheap, unhealthy, sugar-loaded foods are the obvious choice when you don't know any better. I mean, they're delicious, and a lot of people are overweight, so why not? I've since learned that maintaining my weight is important, and that means I should end a meal being just hungry enough to eat more, and if I'm losing weight that means being hungry at the end of a meal, and proteins and healthy fat choices help me from getting so hungry I eat a whole tray of brownies. As for comparing this to other countries, I think the lifestyle of the US is more sedentary in comparison, and for me at least I get more hungry the less I do during the day. I sometimes eat because I'm bored, and that means sugary stuff. When I lived in Brazil and walked around all day I ate a lot but never really cared for sugary stuff the way I do now.

perl4ever 7y ago

There are plenty of regular grocery stores with produce and meat in the US, and also many stores that specialize in foods of immigrants. For instance, in a city of about 100,000, there are three grocery stores that sell produce within a mile or two of where I live, and three Asian (meaning east Asian) grocery stores, and at least one Indian grocery store. There's a Mexican grocery store not too far away, and I'm sure there are halal places too. A lot of people get produce at farmers' markets which are everywhere as well. You may not be aware of this, but writing articles that make absurd generalizations to get clicks and upset people is popular on the internet these days.