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Thank you! This line about "unhealthy food is the most affordable option" doesn't really hold up in my experience. Some "superfoods," exotic fruits, nice cuts

Thank you! This line about "unhealthy food is the most affordable option" doesn't really hold up in my experience. Some "superfoods," exotic fruits, nice cuts of meat and fish, and certain vegetables are expensive, and that's a problem, but its a problem at the margins. The basic building blocks of a healthy diet are all widely available and affordable. Some quick googling says the avg price for a dozen eggs in the US is $1.48. A can of tuna is $0.77. A pound of bananas is $0.57. A pound of potatoes $0.75. Dried beans/lentils/rice are even cheaper. I understand there are complicating factors. You need a place to cook, and a big mac probably generally looks more enticing than canned fish, especially if you've spent all day on your feet at a job you hate. But these are separate problems, unrelated to the food supply chain.

docmars 5y ago
You struck a good balance here -- well put! :)
pdfernhout 5y ago
Another complicating factor of all this is "The Pleasure Trap" of "Supernormal Stimuli" and "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" in a society far from what humans are adapted for. Related: "How to escape The Pleasure Trap!" By Douglas Lisle and Alan Goldhamer https://web.archive.org/web/20150430050047/http://drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20150430050047/http://drfuhrman.... "Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose" by Deirdre Barrett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html "The Lifestyle Cure" https://tlc.ku.edu/ https://tlc.ku.edu/ From the last: "We were never designed for the sedentary, indoor, sleep-deprived, socially-isolated, fast-food-laden, frenetic pace of modern life. (Stephen Ilardi, PhD)"

docmars 5y ago

You struck a good balance here -- well put! :)

pdfernhout 5y ago

Another complicating factor of all this is "The Pleasure Trap" of "Supernormal Stimuli" and "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" in a society far from what humans are adapted for. Related: "How to escape The Pleasure Trap!" By Douglas Lisle and Alan Goldhamer https://web.archive.org/web/20150430050047/http://drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20150430050047/http://drfuhrman.... "Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose" by Deirdre Barrett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html "The Lifestyle Cure" https://tlc.ku.edu/ https://tlc.ku.edu/ From the last: "We were never designed for the sedentary, indoor, sleep-deprived, socially-isolated, fast-food-laden, frenetic pace of modern life. (Stephen Ilardi, PhD)"