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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I think subsidizing healthy food is good, it will not make much of a dent in the hesitant epidemic. Portion control is free and you don’t see overweight people doing this.

Just look at which foods kids choose when given the option. Every class party, the donuts get eaten in five seconds while the apple slices or bags of carrots get left behind. Adults are no different. Adults are choosing to eat crap because it tastes good, is satisfying, and gives them pleasure. [b]They aren’t controlling their portions because they aren’t eating to address hunger. [/b]

With inflation now, I’ve noticed that the fresher healthy food IS cheaper than the nutrition less, high calorie, processed snack food. A large bag of apples was 2.99 while a bag of cookies Oreo, Nilla wafers and all the rest of the brands were 4.59 or more. A dozen eggs were $3 while the cheapest on sale cereal was 3.99. Yet people who can afford it and probably a lot who can’t are still buying cookies and cereal.

There was an article a while back on why lower income families give in to kids asking for junk food more than UMC parents. The researchers discovered that since the lower income parents couldn’t afford other rewards/gifts like toys or experiences they used junk food as something they could afford to make their kids happy.

Food companies sell products that people buy. They have focus groups and adding sweetener wins, so they make this. During the lockdowns, the cookie and chip aisle was bare while the kale chips still didn’t move. [/quote]

So what do you make of the research that obese AND FORMERLY people experience more hunger and have more hunger triggering hormones than non-obese people? [/quote]

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