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Originally Posted by raeanna74
We could probably argue all day that air conditioning, preprocessed foods, television and many other things contribute to obesity. In the end it's all about laziness. I think those things just give us more excuses to whine when we're "lacking".
The arguement for poor folk that junk food is cheaper than healthy food is stupidity. A carton of eggs is way cheaper than a bag of chips. A head of lettuce and a bag of carrots will a salad for the whole family for less money than a Hungry-Man TV dinner would. It takes some intelligence and a lack of laziness to make it work but it's possible.
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if i go over to miejers (think walmart but without the evil), i can buy 5x more crap food than healthy food for the same price. not only that, a bag of chips is going to have a whole lot more energy in it than a carton of eggs. i can get a hungry man dinner for something like $3.29. a bag of prepared mixed greens for salad would cost me that much or very close. you can feed a family of 4 on mcdonalds for $12 (dollar menu, sandwich, small fries, drink for each person). if you're careful about your food choices, i'm sure you can get healthy food for close to the same about as crap food, but i think you would have to find eating healthy to be really worth the diligence.