Is The Recession Causing Obesity?
According to a “study”, over the last year the number of obese Americans has increased by 1.7 percent. That is apparently 5.5 million more obese people in the country. Who’s to blame for this? Well, apparently the recession!
Without as much money, people can’t afford to buy healthy foods. And we all know how expensive steak, fruit and veges are these days!
But on the otherhand, is it likely that people who eat steak, fruit and veges are going to go back to their junk food, or are they just going to eat less of the healthy food?
In that case, people will become thinner!
Or another thought may be that because everyone’s depressed, they’re eating junk food to feel better, not to mention the amount of time saved by getting take-away! I always feel like ordering pizza when I’m feeling down, so obviously there’s 5.5 million Americans just like me!
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I think that is BS. You can buy a loaf of bread and pack of turkey for pretty much what you pay for a extra value meal. So one burger and fries vs at least on the low side what 8 sandwiches. As far a fruit and veg go to farmers markets the produce it better and cheaper. People just want to make excuses for everything and be lazy and not think of good ones so its the recessions fault now. Before that they were blaming the fast food joints for making fatty foods.
Haha yeah. However, some places, like where I live, don't have a local fruit and vege shop. It's all run by the large companies who have shareholders and managers who need to increase profit margins to pay their mortgage.
Strawberries have been $5 for a 250gram punnet for half a year now. I pay $29 per kilo for a porterhouse steak here. I CAN get the steak cheaper ($24/kg), but it's much lower quality.
By the way, I've never heard of anyone losing weight on a bread and turkey diet
then they are eating to much bread and turkey lol. Losing weight is about input and output. You have to burn more cal then eat but I get what you are saying. I guess I'm lucky where I live there are markets everywhere.
In the cities there's plenty of cheap markets, which is cool. I live in a small country town. I think our town is voted the most isolated town in the southern hemisphere or something.. I doubt it's true though. The closest city is 500km away.
Speaking of cheap junk food, take a look at this!
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