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In the poorer places of the country, it is far easier to get fast food than food from a grocery store. A lot of these families don't have a car, and lugging a w
by RevRal 17y ago
In the poorer places of the country, it is far easier to get fast food than food from a grocery store. A lot of these families don't have a car, and lugging a week's worth of groceries on the bus absolutely sucks -- I've done it before. Even worse if you have a family.
Obesity is a very complicated issue in poor neighborhoods. It would involve fixing a few other things. And I don't like the "bah, lazy people" attitude. I have no idea how I'd handle the situation if I was raised in that sort of environment. I do know that it takes a much larger amount of effort to eat healthy in bad places.
The issue is further complicated since we try to push the same nutritional guide on everyone. It is a little known fact that Native Americas have a hard time with bread. Rice isn't as healthy for people as you think, unless their bodies are adapted for it.
In all, the University's heart is in the right place.
- J_McQuade 17y agoIn the poorer places of the country, it is far easier to get fast food than food from a grocery store I was speaking to an American friend of mine recently and he brought up a very similar point. I simply could not understand how fast food could have come to be associated with the poor in the United States - he simply pointed out that I live in England, where a decent take-out often costs the equivalent of $8-$10 US, for a much smaller portion, and that almost any American would see that as bordering on extortion. If nothing else, I feel that this highlights how ill-conceived our ideas can be when we try to reason about a world that many of us simply don't live in.