Re:How to eat healthily on £1 a day
by MisterBastahrd on Sunday April 28, 2013 @05:14AM
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Calories are not nutrition. Food loaded with sugar and preservatives is much cheaper than healthy foods, and it also happens to be more readily available. Many poor neighborhoods don't have grocery stores where one can purchase fresh fruit and vegetables, but they do have convenience stores where you can buy all the candybars and junk food you can eat... at a considerable markup.
Re:How to eat healthily on £1 a day
by agilescale on Sunday April 28, 2013 @12:49AM
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So if everybody eats potatoes and bread all day... that's enough for you because it satisfies an incredibly obtuse quantitative metric?
Re:How to eat healthily on £1 a day
by yummyfajitas on Sunday April 28, 2013 @05:19PM
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If someone gets fat off potatoes and bread they are consuming too much. They could reduce consumption of potatoes/bread and spend the money they save on vegetables.
Re:How to eat healthily on £1 a day
by agilescale on Monday April 29, 2013 @10:09AM
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This whole discussion is an example of why reductionism should be handled with care.
Have you considered how easy it is to stuff yourself with simple carbohydrates? Do you
That's actually very likely the right thing to do. Thanks to various wealth transfer programs, anyone with earned income <$20k has consumption of approximately $20k.
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt
We don't need to see people literally starving to death to accept that people have a problem getting enough food.
Are people even becoming slightly less fat? That will happen long before anyone starves.