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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Good for you! that's great! I'm glad you are so efficient and speedy. Ask that homeless guy where he can heat up that oatmeal.... or will he just take that $1 and go get a burger and move on?
Again, we're talking about people's choices.. and see we can tell based on studies that people make bad choices about healthy food choices.
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So you're saying that zoning should take into consideration homeless people?
BTW, it's not education it's laziness. As I said before, "Show me someone who doesn't know an apple is healthier than a cheeseburger and I'll eat my hat." Short of mental disabilities, everyone is aware of at least basic facts about nutrition. So why doesn't everyone have a healthy diet? They're lazy. They don't want to do the legwork I did for this thread (which probably amounts to about 15 minutes web surfing or maybe 20 minutes at a supermarket). They grab what they want to eat and then go.
Or they do a bit of homework and eat healthy.
I make more than enough money to spend $36 a day on healthy food, but I don't. I looked at my budget and found that I average only about $300 a month for myself on groceries. Why, that's $10 a day and I'm not even trying to shop cheap (as a matter of fact, I shop at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's most of the time, which means my food is a bit more expensive). It's not $3 a day, of course, but I'll probably live well into my 80s and have a higher quality of life. If I really budgeted, I'm sure I could bring my spending down below $150 a month—Ch'i (my little brother) spends even less than that, maybe $130. That's $4.33 a day, and he eats even healthier than I do.
BTW, Cynth, do you know of anyone who spends $1080 on him or herself for food? Not for a family (I could feed a family of 6 on that), but just him or herself? That study is obviously wrong.