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"perhaps doing and eating what we want (to the extent we’re making choices) is more valuable than lower mortality and morbidity" It seems more systemic to me.
by Ologn 13y ago
"perhaps doing and eating what we want (to the extent we’re making choices) is more valuable than lower mortality and morbidity"
It seems more systemic to me. I go to my supermarket and decide to eschew snacks like candy or potato chips for dried fruit or the like. But even the dried fruit has extra sugar added to it. I look at the vitamins and such on some yogurts and there is very little healthy about them. Normal dinner type foods are loaded with sodium, cholesterol, saturated fat etc. Even when one wants to be eat healthy, it can be a trial, because so much food is loaded with junk, even "healthy" type foods.
- beachstartup 13y agoi don't agree with this, at least for people who can afford it or live in non-food desert areas (you didn't make the distinction in your assertion) if you walk into a any grocery store, there's fresh/unprocessed meat, poultry, eggs, fish, vegetables, fruit everywhere. you don't need to buy anything that comes in a box or wrapped in plastic or has added sugar or salt or anything. you don't need to eat anything beyond that selection to be healthy. whether or not you want to go through the trouble of preparing it is another matter.
- DanBC 13y agoWhat you say is true, but don't forget that most people have rudimentary at best cooking skills and haven't learnt how to use a shopping list. Combine that with misleading labels and massive advertising budgets of ready meals and it's easy to understand how people fall into the trap.
- adventured 13y agoMost people haven't learned how to use a shopping list? What people are you talking about exactly (emphasis, as I'd like to know who you're describing here)? I grew up in poor Appalachia. Every single person I knew, understood perfectly well how to use a shopping list, and how to cook. I simply can't imagine who these people are that don't know such things, given my comparison group is in theory low on the education chart.
- HeyLaughingBoy 13y agoAnecdotal: I grew up knowing how to cook and prepare meals since I was 10-11 years old or so. It was a complete shock after college to find out that my roommate (that I had gone to school with) could barely boil water. I just assumed everyone knew how to cook at least basic things because that was how I was raised. He was raised with his mom doing everything for him, so after graduating (meal plans in college meant no need to cook), he literally could barely make toast. For the first 6 months after living together, his dinner usually came from Burger King. Now I find that people my age (late 40's) and older are often the same way. Somehow they've managed to spend their entire lives eating takeout or microwaved meals. In my single days, I managed to impress any number of women simply because I made them home-cooked meals. Insane, but true.
- tekalon 13y agoI rented a room from a woman who had her mother cook or she ate out. I had to show her how to turn on her own oven. She owned the house, had a beautiful kitchen (open, good appliances, lots of cupboard/prep space) but never used it. Her brother, also living in the house, was AMAZED when I would cook and make my own meals.
- maxerickson 13y agoI recently noticed a third Subway in a town of less than 15,000 people. How many people do they have to serve to be breaking even? Times three. It wasn't so long ago that the second one went in (and that was at least partly to capture foot traffic from the high school).
- mmariani 13y agoThis playlist might help people with poor cooking skills. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4sylQahxyepBiKD1V7VPkahHoEVig_4C http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4sylQahxyepBiKD1V7VPk...