• Mercival@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      It is a fair point, being obese and poor can definitely be a a horrific feedback loop to get out of.

      In developed countries anyways, you don’t really see it in places where food is scarce, of course.

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        This is just wrong, the tiny island nation of Nauru have a huge obesity problem as the only food they can get in any decent quantity are preprocessed food with very low nutritional value.

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      I don’t know about that. A combo meal at McDonald’s is inching closer to 15$ in a lot of places. You can go down to the grocery store and get a good amount of food for that much. Healthy doesn’t necessarily mean only the expensive organic, free range, non GMO whatever foods are worth eating.

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        I’m about to eat my fourth or fifth McDonald’s free double cheeseburger so far of this month just because someone on the local baseball team got a double and they give away a free one in the app to anyone who claims it in the state the next day.

        With promotions and deals (which are pretty much always going on) it’s actually tough to get cheaper than eating fast food a lot of the time.

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        7 months ago

        If time is money, than fastfood and processed foods are way cheaper than healthy options that require preparing and cleaning of pots/pans etc

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        7 months ago

        Fast food implies prepared food. What healthy prepared food are you thinking of? It’s generally much cheaper. Ops post makes no sense. Poverty is not inversely proportional to weight at all