Originally posted by tranceDJ
Healthier food definetly has become more expensive partly because less people eat it...less demand, higher price. The McDonald's-type food is in such high demand that the price is driven down, making even more people eat it. If health food was the common thing amongst people to eat, it would be much less expensive...this isn't likely to happen anytime soon though.
lol
love the economic angle on it.
Dec-18-2006 20:36
Halcyon+On+On
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
quote:
Originally posted by tranceDJ
Healthier food definetly has become more expensive partly because less people eat it...less demand, higher price. The McDonald's-type food is in such high demand that the price is driven down, making even more people eat it. If health food was the common thing amongst people to eat, it would be much less expensive...this isn't likely to happen anytime soon though.
Exactly. There's too much money to be made off of people being fat. Convincing people to eat healthier is like convincing them to wake up and realize that their government is a fucking sham and lies to them and spends their money to kill children thousands of miles away - quite doubtful everyone is going to listen, or even the majority is going to listen for that matter.
It would seem as though the sole responsibility for reversing this trend lies within the companies who sell the majority of fast food. Perhaps if McDonald's bought out 24 Hour Fitness centres, we would see some progress.
Dec-18-2006 20:38
Boomer187
Spicy Hotdog
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: USA
the problem I have is that I want to be obese, but I can't. I follow all of your guy's advice, I eat mcdonalds all the time, I never exercise, and just in general eat a lot of high fat foods (not to mention I do live in america!!) and I cannot for the life of me get obese.
any suggestions?
bonus 10 cool points to anyone that gets my point.
Dec-18-2006 20:38
Clovis
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Los Angeles
IMO the problem is TV.
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Dec-18-2006 20:40
EXTREMUM
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Location: New York, USA
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Originally posted by Clovis
IMO the problem is the Internet.
Dec-18-2006 20:45
infinity HiGH
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Location: west side T.O
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Originally posted by Clovis
IMO the problem is capitalism.
Dec-18-2006 20:46
MrJiveBoJingles
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.
Capitalism does a lot of good things, but it really does seem to be part of the problem here: Sell people cheap crap food, they get fatter, they eat more, doctors and surgeons make more money, pharma profits go through the roof -- everybody wins -- economically, at least.
Dec-18-2006 20:48
StanVoid
more hot pockets!
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Location: NYC, New York
Re: Re: Obesity "epidemic": any solution?
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more hot pockets !
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Dec-18-2006 20:49
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yes communism ftw!
Dec-18-2006 20:50
infinity HiGH
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Location: west side T.O
The bad outweighs the good.
Dec-18-2006 20:51
MrJiveBoJingles
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I'm not sure how one would measure that. Regardless, capitalism is the result (for now) of a relatively high degree of economic freedom, although some areas do need regulation to avoid systemic inefficiencies (like America's terrible insurance system).