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"Good food is expensive" is a baseless claim I hear all the time. People could eat relatively healthy if they wanted to, but they don't. There are a bunch of reasons, but if I was forced to pick one it's that these big companies engineer their processed food to be addictive. It's insidious.
👤bedhead🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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Do you have a good source for good food is expensive? I've heard this before, but it seems like plenty of "good" food is inexpensive like rice, beans, lentils, eggs, root veges, yogurt, oats and spinach.
👤nattaylor🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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There are other contributing factors as well, intrinsically linked to the evolving social/economics dynamics in our society. For example, it's now much more common for families to have two working parents, and thus less time to prepare nutritionally complete food from scratch. So people naturally gravitate toward engineered food which is easier to prepare, but less "good" as food. There are many other similar effects that lead to Americans eating more/poorer food like advertising, school lunches, etc, but the deck is definitely stacked against this world to reverse the obesity epidemic.
👤ssutch3🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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That's not really true. Most diets are bad because of the crap they include, not because of expensive for that a person cannot afford. Most people's diets can be improved by simply removing sugar and alcohol!
👤mjbeswick🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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It is not simply that the USD is the reserve currency; the US has also changed how it measures CPI (to the benefit of the government and detriment of those on social security). This investopedia article is a pretty good summary
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex....
👤snomad🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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What's the data around "many"?
How much of this is about accessibility?
How much of this is about education?
How much is making affordable going to solve the problem enough?
I ask sincerely - but in transparency it does come from a sense that its not as much to do w/ cost as it seems to be from my perspective.
👤closetnerd🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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One can be skinny on crappy food and obese on healthy. It is simply calories consumed vs calories spent bar few exceptions. And for increasingly more and more people stuffing themselves have become the only way to "get away from it all".
👤FpUser🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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More Americans are dependent on processed food than ever. Except that processed food has declined in quality and nutritional value over the past few decades, primarily to keep costs under control. There are confounding factors but this is a key driver.
As the world’s reserve currency, the USD does not experience inflation in the same manner as most other countries. Rather than food prices skyrocketing, quality and optionally portions are reduced to compensate for declining purchasing power.