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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach in a high poverty school and by 5th-6th grade, nearly every student is overweight. It's sad. Some of them stayed overweight as they grew but some of them were a normal weight and then just packed on the pounds.[/quote]

Its all the cheap food loaded with unhealthy grains and sugar / high fructose corn syrup.

Healthy food is expensive. [/quote]

No it isn’t.  Can we just stop this? It is a cultural shift to eat crap as the majority of your food intake, especially for low income. [/quote]

Ingredients can be inexpensive. But there is time involved in making it into food. That is something the parents may lack. Also the possibility of living in food deserts. I remember my parents making a 45 min trip on the one day they both had off (one car only) so they could go to the nearest grocery store to get ingredients for food. 
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More BS excuses.  People have been living on simple foods such as beans, rice, eggs, potatoes, oatmeal, season fruits and vegetables that are cheap for thousands of years- and the lived much busier and harder lives than anyone is living now.  [b]The only difference is they didn’t have a choice but to eat nutritious foods. [/b] There wasn’t the options of Cheetos and Kraft Mac and cheese.  If given the option, 9/10 times people will pick the crap food bc it’s less work and tastes good. Not because they are too busy or can’t afford anything else.  And people are more likely to pick the crap food if everyone around them is also (such as in poor American communities).[/quote]

That’s the only difference between now and thousands of years ago? Lol

Also, it’s a myth that people will always pick the crap food. Fresh food tastes good and makes the body feel good. There is way more at play than you are describing [/quote]

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