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Lindsey asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 5 years ago

Do non-Americans understand the reason we have such an obesity problem in America is because healthy food cost so much more than unhealthy.?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago
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    That is not accurate. You can buy a dozen eggs, a head of lettuce, and a bag of oranges at roughly the same price as a box of pizza pops, a bag of chips, and a frozen pizza.

    The choices people are making are what cause them to become obese. Nothing else.

  • 5 years ago

    Did you ever stop to think that is the case everywhere, genius?

    The problem with Americans is they are stupid and lazy. Back in the old days they actually cooked and ate sort of decently balanced meals. Now all they eat is processed fast food or some ready made crap. That's what's causing the obesity fool - PROCESSED FOODS.

    That's also what's causing all the cancer.

    But, guess what? A Vote for Trump means you never have to feel bad about eating total **** and being a lazy SOB!

  • 5 years ago

    It's been recently discovered that an American scientist 30 years ago used wrong data for his claims that people would be healthier if they eat less fat in their diet.

    Food manufacturing went to zero fat but added 15 % to 50% or more of sugar to improve the taste they also added harmfull trans fats from vegitables oils that clogged people's arteries and overloaded on salt that increased people's blood pressure.

    Dieticians now realise that a healthy diet containing olive oil oily fish vegitables natural butter (no trans fats) reduced daily salt intake a reasonable amount of carbohydrates is best

  • 5 years ago

    As in the UK you can live healthily and cheaply if you selec the right foods. You just Google cheap and healthy food.

    Its the people that choose to eat rubbish. Money only makes it easier to select healthy food, with a wider choice.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    That's not the reason ; Suburbia is the reason

    People who live in cities walk everywhere ; People who live in suburbia drive everywhere

    Big difference

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