Originally posted by galatea

Originally posted by Sonya610

Originally posted by Blaine91555Inability to buy high priced healthy foods.

I don't agree with that one. For the price of a big mac, fries and drink ($5-$6) one can make a decent meal of meat, veggies, etc... Or a decent sandwich with high quality meat, bread, etc..

Sure if one wants to buy the most expensive organic meat and vegetables it can get expensive but that is NOT necessary. People can eat cheap without eating junk, frozen veggies, pasta, rice, peanut butter, cheaper cuts of meat, there are lots of choices that are not all that costly.

So, you are saying that for 5 dollars I can get meat, veggies and bread? Please let me know where you are shopping.!... and if I just get the cheap food it's just as unhealthy for me as mcdonalds.

Agreed. It boggles my mind how something that is grown from the earth, is more expensive than a processed food. You can walk into a fast food joint and buy a couple of items off any value menu and have a large meal. For the same amount of money, you can buy maybe two pieces of fruit.

That is why we have so many over weight people. It is economicly feasible to eat unhealthy, because health food is just too expensive.



[edit on 25-7-2008 by testrat]

Around here the real question is this.....

Why are people so SKINNY? In my year level there's only about 5 people who are overweight... out of over a hundred people. Are Australians really fit or is it something else?

Originally posted by C0bzz
In my year level there's only about 5 people who are overweight... out of over a hundred people. Are Australians really fit or is it something else?

Year level? Are you in highschool? I think it is natural for most teenagers to be pretty skinny during high school, particularly the males. Its that gangley stage, they muscle up mid twenties.

Man, I knew I was right for refusing to ride the motorized carts at my work just to move it from one door to the other. I always say to my co-workers "I just know if I get in that thing, some ignoramous is going to think I am riding it just because they think I am fat and lazy."

Also, fat people don't share? Where the heck do some people get that logic? I also would like to know where the idea that fat people eat out constantly three times a day came from? Sure that may be true for some but I am sure it isn't the majority.

For me personally, I eat too much. Not all the time, I mean, I don't gorge every single day but I am an emotional eater and so when I have had a bad day, I tend to eat more. I also think that with me personally there is also a genetic factor, every single woman in my family has gotten fat after they had kids. That's what happened to me too. I do feel like I get enough exersize at work, so I really do think that for me, food is the problem.

I am not usually the one to blame outside sources for obesity either however I do agree with the stance on high-fructose corn syrup. I am way addicted to soda which has high fructose corn syrup.

I also think that there is a lot of pressure in our society to look a certain way which can also fuel an emotional eater. Now I am not saying that as an excuse but it certainly does make it harder to abstain.

I would say it's a combination of three things....

1. Hgih Fructose Corn Syrup.....plain and simple
   
2. The Food Pyramid
   
3. The blaming of dietary fat for heart disease, obesity, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, high cholesterol.....
   

I forgot one.....

1. Lack of exercise
   

And probably too much of this......