Fast Food and Your Neighborhood..

[IGBT]

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Researchers used computer software to analyze the placement of fast food restaurants in Orleans Parish. The team found that predominantly black neighborhoods had 2.4 such eateries per square mile, while white neighborhoods only had 1.5, says lead author Jason Block, who is now an internal medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass.



The study is published in a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

 

[Amused]

Oh bullsh!t.

This is, and always has been a personal responsibility issue. Food sellers are not forcing ANYONE to eat their food, over eat, or not exercise.

This blaming food and those who make/sell it for obesity thing is just another example of the total loss of personal responsibility in our country.

And fast food outlets thrive in low income neighborhoods. They locate there because they do good business there. For some reason, low income people eat fast food a LOT more than higher income people.

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

 

[IGBT]

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

..could be. The path of least resistance. It's easier to waddle down to Obesity Shack and think nothing about nutritional content..then stay home and prepare a healthy meal.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Amused
Oh bullsh!t.

This is, and always has been a personal responsibility issue. Food sellers are not forcing ANYONE to eat their food, over eat, or not exercise.

This blaming food and those who make/sell it for obesity thing is just another example of the total loss of personal responsibility in our country.

And fast food outlets thrive in low income neighborhoods. They locate there because they do good business there. For some reason, low income people eat fast food a LOT more than higher income people.

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

I don't see where in the study it blames the businesses for setting up shop in the poor neighborhoods. Could you point that out?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused
Oh bullsh!t.

This is, and always has been a personal responsibility issue. Food sellers are not forcing ANYONE to eat their food, over eat, or not exercise.

This blaming food and those who make/sell it for obesity thing is just another example of the total loss of personal responsibility in our country.

And fast food outlets thrive in low income neighborhoods. They locate there because they do good business there. For some reason, low income people eat fast food a LOT more than higher income people.

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

I don't see where in the study it blames the businesses for setting up shop in the poor neighborhoods. Could you point that out?

:roll:

As usual, the obvious flies right over your head.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused
Oh bullsh!t.

This is, and always has been a personal responsibility issue. Food sellers are not forcing ANYONE to eat their food, over eat, or not exercise.

This blaming food and those who make/sell it for obesity thing is just another example of the total loss of personal responsibility in our country.

And fast food outlets thrive in low income neighborhoods. They locate there because they do good business there. For some reason, low income people eat fast food a LOT more than higher income people.

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

I don't see where in the study it blames the businesses for setting up shop in the poor neighborhoods. Could you point that out?

:roll:

As usual, the obvious flies right over your head.

I agree on the lazy ass people but I don't see where it blames food and the people that sell it.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused
Oh bullsh!t.

This is, and always has been a personal responsibility issue. Food sellers are not forcing ANYONE to eat their food, over eat, or not exercise.

This blaming food and those who make/sell it for obesity thing is just another example of the total loss of personal responsibility in our country.

And fast food outlets thrive in low income neighborhoods. They locate there because they do good business there. For some reason, low income people eat fast food a LOT more than higher income people.

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

I don't see where in the study it blames the businesses for setting up shop in the poor neighborhoods. Could you point that out?

:roll:

As usual, the obvious flies right over your head.

I agree on the lazy ass people but I don't see where it blames food and the people that sell it.

Look up the word: "Implication."

Ponder it. Study it. Learn it.

Then get back to me.

 

[loup garou]

I'd say New Orleans is a terrible example for a study like this. The worst low-income neighborhoods are directly next to some of the ritziest. Proximity goes out the window. I would routinely go to Taco Bell on Claiborne and Louisiana, across from housing projects, from my friend's $500,000 house on Broadway. A better study would be in a typical city (city center, suburb, exurb)...but then they'd find that *gasp* all the fast food joints are in the suburbs with the white folks!

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: IGBT

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

..could be. The path of least resistance. It's easier to waddle down to Obesity Shack and think nothing about nutritional content..then stay home and prepare a healthy meal.

I agree with that. Even easy stuff made at home, a simple sandwich or a homemade hamburger will be better for you than the average stuff you get at the typical fast food burger joint. It takes effort though, one has to actually go out and buy the ingredients and assemble them into an edible concoction. Easier to sit on one's arse and go through the drive-through.

It's a hell of a lot cheaper to eat at home too, so you have the implications of laziness by eating food prepared by someone else, then poor money management by not buying a loaf of bread and sandwich fixings for the same price as one "extra value meal." Your food dollar goes much further if you don't eat out.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: werk
I'd say New Orleans is a terrible example for a study like this. The worst low-income neighborhoods are directly next to some of the ritziest. Proximity goes out the window. I would routinely go to Taco Bell on Claiborne and Louisiana, across from housing projects, from my friend's $500,000 house on Broadway. A better study would be in a typical city (city center, suburb, exurb)...but then they'd find that *gasp* all the fast food joints are in the suburbs with the white folks!

Well it was done by Tulane University right here in New Orleans.

They obviously had to justify the grant money woth something.

The way to really quantify the study would be to survey the refrigerators.

If you go to the low income homes you would mainly only find beer in the fridge.

Go into the 500,000 house across the street and you will find it fully stocked.

I should get a ten million dollar grant for my study.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused
Oh bullsh!t.

This is, and always has been a personal responsibility issue. Food sellers are not forcing ANYONE to eat their food, over eat, or not exercise.

This blaming food and those who make/sell it for obesity thing is just another example of the total loss of personal responsibility in our country.

And fast food outlets thrive in low income neighborhoods. They locate there because they do good business there. For some reason, low income people eat fast food a LOT more than higher income people.

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

I don't see where in the study it blames the businesses for setting up shop in the poor neighborhoods. Could you point that out?

:roll:

As usual, the obvious flies right over your head.

I agree on the lazy ass people but I don't see where it blames food and the people that sell it.

Look up the word: "Implication."

Ponder it. Study it. Learn it.

Then get back to me.

Implication = Assumption

Yep got it right :laugh:

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Amused
Oh bullsh!t.

This is, and always has been a personal responsibility issue. Food sellers are not forcing ANYONE to eat their food, over eat, or not exercise.

This blaming food and those who make/sell it for obesity thing is just another example of the total loss of personal responsibility in our country.

And fast food outlets thrive in low income neighborhoods. They locate there because they do good business there. For some reason, low income people eat fast food a LOT more than higher income people.

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

/Thread.

 

[Ozoned]

Originally posted by: IGBT

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

..could be. The path of least resistance. It's easier to waddle down to Obesity Shack and think nothing about nutritional content..then stay home and prepare a healthy meal.

The basic composition (carbs, protein, fat, etc.) of the healthy meal you are preparing at home is available at the obesity shack also.

Research is a key part of deciding where to place fast food restaurants also. For some odd reason, people tend to build them where they will be profitable.

Also the premise of the op is flawed as it does not address the population density per square mile along with the cited information of "obesity shacks" per square mile.

 

[Blastomyces]

I'm lovin' it!

 

[IGBT]

Also the premise of the op is flawed as it does not address the population density per square mile along with the cited information of "obesity shacks" per square mile.

..did I coin a phrase?? "Obesity Shack"..I think so.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Amused
Oh bullsh!t.

This is, and always has been a personal responsibility issue. Food sellers are not forcing ANYONE to eat their food, over eat, or not exercise.

This blaming food and those who make/sell it for obesity thing is just another example of the total loss of personal responsibility in our country.

And fast food outlets thrive in low income neighborhoods. They locate there because they do good business there. For some reason, low income people eat fast food a LOT more than higher income people.

IMO, it's related to the reason they're low income to begin with: Laziness.

I don't see where in the study it blames the businesses for setting up shop in the poor neighborhoods. Could you point that out?

:roll:

As usual, the obvious flies right over your head.

I agree on the lazy ass people but I don't see where it blames food and the people that sell it.

Look up the word: "Implication."

Ponder it. Study it. Learn it.

Then get back to me.

Implication = Assumption

Yep got it right :laugh:

No, you failed...

Miserably.