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.
Kefass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s often cheaper to buy fastfood than healthy food
Mercival@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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.
stoy@lemmy.zip 7 months 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.
Alenalda@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 months ago
It’s more than just the monetary investment though. It’s time and energy spent creating healthy meals, that if you’re working 12-14 hr days just becomes too much to handle.
scottywh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m about to eat my fourth or fifth McDonald’s free double cheeseburger so far of this month just because someone on the local baseball team got a double and they give away a free one in the app to anyone who claims it in the state the next day.
With promotions and deals (which are pretty much always going on) it’s actually tough to get cheaper than eating fast food a lot of the time.
Gigan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wouldn’t say cheaper, but it’s definitely easier.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If time is money, than fastfood and processed foods are way cheaper than healthy options that require preparing and cleaning of pots/pans etc
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Fast food implies prepared food. What healthy prepared food are you thinking of? It’s generally much cheaper. Ops post makes no sense. Poverty is not inversely proportional to weight at all
idunnololz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That and food deserts. Poor places in the US lack easy access to nutritional food.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 months ago
Jamie Oliver’s War on Nuggets: youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 7 months ago
You can still lose weight if you eat unhealthy shit. Like I know people that eat McDonald’s everyday yet they ain’t fat. While you still don’t get all the necessary nutrients being unhealthy skinny is still better than being fat.
Kase@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why do you say that? I guess that “unhealthy” isn’t very specific and could mean a lot of things. But health issues that are caused by malnutrition can certainly be worse than being fat. It just depends on the individual situation, I would think.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’d be surprised if that was actually true. I think what really matters is how much time and effort making your own food takes vs the speed and simplicity of buying fast food.
Price, time and effort can be minimized by making a large amount of the food in one guy that you eat for some days, but apparently some people hate eating the same food two (or more) days in a row, which, okay(?), I guess that’s one reason not to do it.