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Posted on 9/5/17 at 2:11 pm to randomways
Posted on 9/5/17 at 2:11 pm to randomways
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Have you ever been to a poor neighborhood? Yes, choice factors, but the availability of fresh, healthy ingredients varies wildly between poor and wealthy areas, as does the feasibility of keeping fresh ingredients -- which tend to go bad and require new shopping trips with much greater frequency than non-fresh -- stocked. People do have options in life, but it's not exactly correct to say that their circumstances don't figure hugely in said options, especially when you add in the fact that impoverished people usually have only the example of impoverished previous generations to teach them as they grow up.
I see what your getting at but your wrong.. As a nutrition major, I can tell you, it's all about calories in vs calories out.. Just cause your on a budget doesn't mean you have to take in excess calories every day.. no one is forcing food down anyone's mouth.. doesn't matter if your poor or not or where you live.. Food is fuel, and when it is treated as more than that, fat is gained...
This post was edited on 9/5/17 at 2:13 pm
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Posted on 9/5/17 at 4:24 pm to Sneakerhead42
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Food is fuel, and when it is treated as more than that, fat is gained...
So what if we start eating all the thin, rich folks on the East and West coast?
Asking, you know, for a friend who is on a budget but has tons of frequent flyer miles with their old job.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 9:05 pm to Sneakerhead42
Well yea calories in vs calories out determines body weight, but not necessarily composition. Yes, there are healthy foods that are cheap (not a lot of cheap protein though). However, most cheap foods are very unhealthy. For people forced into watching their spending, it is unlikely they will be grabbing healthy foods.
Example: a typical break at work for me at my last job during a low financial period: $1 loaf of French bread. That would cover 2 breaks, and was purely unhealthy. But it was cheap and convenient for a work break. Now my lunch at my new job (when I was on my cut recently) is a pouch of tuna for $2 and a pound of carrots for .88. Sometimes I'd mix it up and get strawberries instead of carrots, which are over $2 for a pound. Now that I'm on a bulk I'm spending a lot more, example today I got 2 apples which ran somewhere over $2, 9oz of turkey breast for $2.50, and a pack of cookies for $1.88. The cookies lasted 2 meals, and I saved a few for my girlfriend.
So yes it's possible to eat healthy foods for cheap (though typically low protein foods), but in general it's so much easier to eat unhealthy if you're broke.
(Before anyone thinks I'm obese cause I'm an Alabama fan and I shared that I eat a lot- I don't even weigh 180 lbs).
Example: a typical break at work for me at my last job during a low financial period: $1 loaf of French bread. That would cover 2 breaks, and was purely unhealthy. But it was cheap and convenient for a work break. Now my lunch at my new job (when I was on my cut recently) is a pouch of tuna for $2 and a pound of carrots for .88. Sometimes I'd mix it up and get strawberries instead of carrots, which are over $2 for a pound. Now that I'm on a bulk I'm spending a lot more, example today I got 2 apples which ran somewhere over $2, 9oz of turkey breast for $2.50, and a pack of cookies for $1.88. The cookies lasted 2 meals, and I saved a few for my girlfriend.
So yes it's possible to eat healthy foods for cheap (though typically low protein foods), but in general it's so much easier to eat unhealthy if you're broke.
(Before anyone thinks I'm obese cause I'm an Alabama fan and I shared that I eat a lot- I don't even weigh 180 lbs).
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