Rich people can afford expensive healthy food like caviar or sushi. Poor people usually eat carb-rich cheap foods that are highly processed like pizza and pasta.why are afluent people skinnier than lower classes? is it about choice? not $$$?
Affluent people are usually better educated . They are more likely to be aware of good nutrition and will rate maintaining good physical health - sound nutrition + exercise - up there with maintaining their financial health.by the look at the ammount of fat people walking down our main street on pension day/s a food shortage may be a good thing !!
why are afluent people skinnier than lower classes? is it about choice? not $$$?
is food really too dear in the west? i dont think so....
The idea of nature being the source of morality or how civilization should be structured is, in my opinion, a scary thought.Ah stuff it, nature will take care of it all.
by the look at the ammount of fat people walking down our main street on pension day/s a food shortage may be a good thing !!
why are afluent people skinnier than lower classes? is it about choice? not $$$?
is food really too dear in the west? i dont think so....
Weren't you, AJ? How naive of you.Ahem. I wasn't aware we had a "class" based society here???
Correct. But we are talking about the obesity epidemic here in Australia.Your generalisation that "affluent" people are skinnier than "the lower classes" would not hold any weight (no pun intended) in TRULY poor countries in Africa, India etc. REALLY poor people in those places tend to be skeletal - not like the "nouveau poor" of New York or Australia who can still afford a half decent meal three times a say. There is poor and there is P.O.O.R.
Oh, give me a break! Poor babies. Just forced into an endless round of fascinating dinner parties where they are force fed rich food.I'm sure if you looked hard enough you would find there are plenty of "affluent" people in Australia with type 2 diabetes et all who wish they COULD shed a stack of kilos, but find the endless rounds of dinner parties where rich food and drinks predominate are too much for them to handle!
What about personal responsibility? No one forces crap food down people's throats! There is enough nutritional information out there these days for almost everyone to be aware of what constitutes a healthy diet.I agree that Australian diets are not ideal to say the least, but it is generally the "affluent" who control the media & advertising of crap foods. Maybe THEY could forego some revenue to promote a better lifestyle and lead by example?
AJ
my point is that food is cheap. for the same $ as a fat person spends, i could buy a pretty good healthy trolley full of food.
some examples;
pasta-$1 for 500gm
tinned salmon $2.50 for 250gm
tinned tuna $1 for 250 gm
fresh fruit in season
frozen vegies
payless brown bread
real butter in paper
whole chooks (cut up at home)
fresh vegies in season
grow garden to supplement
nz frozen fish
budget steak (rump generally)
etc.
food is cheap. packaged food is expensive. expensive food is expensive. lack of grey matter is very expensive...
g'day metric,my point is that food is cheap. for the same $ as a fat person spends, i could buy a pretty good healthy trolley full of food.
some examples;
pasta-$1 for 500gm
tinned salmon $2.50 for 250gm
tinned tuna $1 for 250 gm
fresh fruit in season
frozen vegies
payless brown bread
real butter in paper
whole chooks (cut up at home)
fresh vegies in season
grow garden to supplement
nz frozen fish
budget steak (rump generally)
etc.
food is cheap. packaged food is expensive. expensive food is expensive. lack of grey matter is very expensive...
My pet peeve is Fat Kids ..... Fat adults isnt so bad, that personal resposibility.
Parents who give them a shocking start to life are effecting everything they can be and probably shaving a decade or more off the ends of there lifes. It effects everything from their academic to sporting performance to mental health and behaviour.
We dont let parents Give kids cigarettes or booze, we dont tolerate parents that bash kids, why do we tolerate parents that let their kids get so fat that its robbing them of a " normal " life ?
This is rather unnecessarily rude, isn't it?Are you "metric" or more correctly "imperial".
I did'nt think this was a cooking forum.
What's you point here?
"Food is cheap" relatively speaking, up to the point where it consumes all you income.
Go and ask some pensioners if they think food is cheap, you superior twit.
macquack.
whats up your beak? and how do you know im not a pensioner...?
everything is cheap or expensive relatively speaking. you make no point at all. all you have done is post a flamming reply.
pensioners whom dont own their own homes find rent a bigger problem than food prices. food is a cost. but so it transport, petrol, power, rates, phone, etc.
there was no need for your nastiness quack. its obvious to all what sort of 'wit' you are...but not so obvious as to why? ....mm
i dont think im superior at all. im overweight!!! beeeeerrrrrr!!! lol. but i choose GOOD beer....!lol
people make bad decisions on food, and it hasnt anything to do with price. its grey matter, or lack of reading the myriad of health stuff available.
its well known, on average, afluent people are leaner than the poor. it is decision making not $ that makes people in the west fat or skinny.
i apologise for my shot at you also...
Cheers Metric, you have proven be a gentleman and scholar and not superior at all. Are we now buddies?
1) What we need to do in Oz is put up a big fence, get some really really big guns, and work out a survival plan.
We are not the worlds food bowl by a long shot. We are only one of the worlds largest exporters of food because of our small population. There are many other countries who leave us for dead when it comes to production.Im convinced we will see pull backs in globalisation, more nationalistic policies and closer bonds between certain groups of countries, the West should sit sweet, we are the worlds food bowl reallyJust need to kick that nasty oil addiction.
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