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Do you buy the idea that obese poor people are obese becaucse they're poor?

Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:57 pm
Posted by zelman
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:57 pm
I get that it's expensive to buy fresh produce and meat, that it's time consuming to cook, and that access to supermarkets is difficult to a certain degree in some impoverished neighborhoods.

But, that said, I think the argument that statistically more poor people are obese because they're poor is just a false perpetuation of the victimhood culture.

I don't care how poorly educated a person is, everybody knows that pizza and cheeseburgers make you fat. I refuse to believe that people literally have to eat fast food every day because they're poor. The most cost-effective meals are things like rice and beans, eggs, and potatoes. It takes effort to cook them, and some desire to learn how, but the idea that healthy, un processed food is just totally unaffordable for poor people is bullshite. That said, I think they should have classes in the public schools that teach people how to cook basic, affordable dishes.

This idea that "I'm fat because I'm poor" is just all part of the culture of victimhood that is destroying America.
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:58 pm to
I eat because I'm unhappy, and I'm unhappy because I eat. It's a vicious cycle...
Posted by Jakesonaplane
Denver
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:58 pm to
I can buy it more easily than these poors can, because I have the money to
Posted by 13SaintTiger
Isle of Capri
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:58 pm to
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Do you buy the idea that obese poor people are obese becaucse they're poor?


Being poor is an excuse, obese people just don't have any self-control. Also, obesity is very relative, you should use the term "fat".
This post was edited on 10/1/15 at 1:02 pm
Posted by Smoke7024
Member since Jun 2010
22643 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:59 pm to
I believe a lot of people are poor because they're lazy. I also believe that a lot of people are fat because they're lazy.
Posted by BamaScoop
Panama City Beach, Florida
Member since May 2007
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:59 pm to
A lot of people are obese because they are lazy and that is also the reason they are poor but there are obese people that are genetically predisposed to be obese.
Posted by jrodLSUke
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Member since Jan 2011
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:59 pm to
quote:

That said, I think they should have parents that teach people how to cook basic, affordable dishes.

Posted by Topwater Trout
Red Stick
Member since Oct 2010
67589 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:00 pm to
quote:

poor people


are usually lazy

quote:

obese people


are usually lazy

FF is convenient
Posted by Artie Rome
Hwy 1
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:00 pm to
quote:

I get that it's expensive to buy fresh produce and meat


No. It isn't. Less expensive than the shite in a box and to-go meals.
Posted by goldenbadger08
Sorting Out MSB BS Since 2011
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:01 pm to
Poor and stupid.
Posted by BigEdLSU
All around the south
Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:01 pm to
When you get 1k monthly worth of yamps, you eat as much of whatever you want.
Posted by Tigris
Mexican Home
Member since Jul 2005
12342 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:02 pm to
They are not unrelated but there is a difference between causation and correlation. And a lot of people struggle to grasp this.

So no.
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27345 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:02 pm to
quote:


Being poor is an excuse, obese people just don't have any self-control.


Agreed, I'm fat because I eat like I'm still hitting three leg days a week and running on the other days.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67482 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:02 pm to
Nope
Posted by mouton
Savannah,Ga
Member since Aug 2006
28276 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:02 pm to
I wonder how many pounds overweight the average person in this thread is?
Posted by jrodLSUke
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Member since Jan 2011
22046 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:03 pm to
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I get that it's expensive to buy fresh produce

We used to live in a world where poor people would grow there own vegetables. Thankfully, our Democrat leaders have changed that forever.
Posted by saint amant steve
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:03 pm to
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The most cost-effective meals are things like rice and beans, eggs, and potatoes. It takes effort to cook them


I think this, as much as anything, is why low-income individuals attribute their overwhelming dependence on fast food and prepackaged meals.

If you are a single parent working multiple jobs and with multiple kids, then I suppose you are in a bit of a time crunch.

However, I am willing to bet that such cases are far rarer than most welfare advocates would dare to admit.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:04 pm to
They are both fat and poor because they are lazy. Fat does not cause poor, poor does not cause fat. Lazy causes both.
Posted by prince of fools
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2009
1130 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:04 pm to
I think that they're obese and poor because they're stupid.
Posted by yellowfin
Coastal Bar
Member since May 2006
97612 posts
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:06 pm to
They are obese and poor for the same reasons....they are lazy and make poor decisions
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