top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 63 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It's often cheaper to buy fastfood than healthy food

  • source
  • hideshow 13 child comments
  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't say cheaper, but it's definitely easier.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 55 points 2 years ago

    I got fat af when I was piss broke. When I could start to afford things other than carbs, the lbs starting going away.

    I get there are people even more broke who can't even afford rice, but don't assume that being fat and being poor run contrary to each other. Shit food is cheap.

  • source
  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not really. The cheapest food is often loaded with fat and sugar

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Poverty is strongly correlated with obesity.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It's easy to get. Healthy and nutritious food can be more costly, and being poor you have very limited amount of funds. It can take more effort to make and being poor, you might have much less time for yourself and have a physically or mentally pretty crushing job so less energy to prepare food. It might not be as satisfying for the brain as unhealthy food, and being poor thing might suck balls so you might not want to give that up and just want something good in your life that makes you a bit happier, even if it is not great for your body.

    Last part is true for beer related weight gain too. And lot of it goes for having active and healthy lifestyle.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    No, it makes you fat on a nice white carb and grease diet. Let's be realistic, we have calorie sufficiency in the developed world, it's malnutrition in the face of excess calories that is the problem.

  • source
  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Yeah, no.

    First: eating strictly healthy is more expensive than eating trash.

    Second: Time. Poor people tend to have less of it available, which means that it's harder to cook meals at home (which, in theory, should be cheaper to eat healthy). That same lake of time also makes exercise challenging.

    Until you get to the point of poverty where you're risking starvation, poor people are more likely to be overweight than people that are in better circumstances.

  • source
  • hideshow 12 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I feel like way too much emphasis is put on cost. It's really easy to find cheap stuff to eat that is healthy. It's almost all of the second point: it just takes time and effort.

    If you want to eat quick with little effort, it's cheaper to eat unhealthy. Which is ultimately the problem. But if you put in the time to cook for yourself, it isn't. It's almost more expensive to eat unhealthy if you spend time to prepare and cook.

    And I think too many people use this as an excuse to eat unhealthy. "Well, it's too expensive, so I might as well not even try. Let me go get McDonald's."

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • load more comments (9 replies)
  • load more comments (10 replies)
    [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    Not really true, in fact starvation is so rare that for the first time in human history more people are dying of obesity related maladies than of starvation or deficiency of some kind.

    The poor have never been so well fattened up in history, we've some the fuck how overcorrected, they're not failing to find bread anymore, they're taking to well note that the twinkies are cheaper for the calorie and more available at quantity for a standard sized family.

  • source
  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But, the poor people are the fattest ones.

    OP is stuck in the XIXth century (which is valid, I'm not century shaming!).

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    You have to be really poor to lose weight because of it. Cheaper food is usually high in calories and low in nutrition.

  • source
  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    I remember detoxing from alcohol and I could not even stand the smell of food for days and weeks. I felt like it will always be like that and I would never be able to eat more than 3 spoons a day. It felt like I would never have problems with my weight again.

    So my weight loss tip is to just become an alcoholic and then stop drinking alcohol, you'll lose a crapton of weight, problem solved!

  • source
  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    most poor people have higher BMIs than wealthy people on average. Poverty is far more likey to make you fat...in USA anyway

  • source
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Not really, because it's easier to get high carb crap food. Most of what food shelves have that isn't produce is carbs and sugar.

  • source
  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    I'm diabetic and cannot get the ozempic I am prescribed with because there isn't enough because of people that want to lose a few kg

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Extreme poverty definitely, but if you're just below the poverty line then sugary foods are typically still cheap enough to buy.

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Self loathing works great too

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Crack works too

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where can I get a prescription for this "poverty"?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’ve had this experience; the poverty, not ozempic. I didn’t have a job first year of college and basically starved. My BMI was under 18. Everyone said my eyes looked sunken.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Have you tried eating less?

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Depression in combination with poverty, sure.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    True that. My health fucking skyrocketed after getting approved for food stamps.

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›