Re:Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them?
by bryanlarsen on Thursday December 05, 2013 @12:06PM
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We've known for a while that there's a correlation between lack of planning and poverty. It's always been assumed that the lack of planning skills causes poverty, but recent studies are starting to show that it's often the other way around: poverty causes a huge amount of stress, which significantly limits the ability of a person to plan well.
To make good food on the cheap, you need a bit of equipment and you need an upfront investment in spices and staples, all of which are significantly cheaper in the long run in bulk. Besides the investment, you need to plan long term, something the poor often struggle with (being poor is rarely only a question of lacking money).
With that in mind, it's pretty naïve to expect banning marketing to achieve much improvement in poor people's diets.