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PingSpike said:
My experience is that healthier foods tend to cost more. If I mostly consumed potato chips and root beer I could get the same amount of calories a lot cheaper.
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That's just an excuse fat people use. You can eat healthy meals for incredible cheap. Fat people are just too lazy to cook.

Things like lean chicken breasts, oats, mixed greens, bananas, tuna, and endless other healthy foods can be had for much cheaper than processed foods like potato chips, easy mac, fast food, etc...
 
Healthy food costs less. You can eat for a month on $40 with beans and rice. How you think these Mexican day laborers survive with infrequent work and still sending money home.
 
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Zebo said:
Healthy food costs less. You can eat for a month on $40 with beans and rice. How you think these Mexican day laborers survive with infrequent work and still sending money home.
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Cost of living scales quite well when you have 6+ people under one roof.

Also, many Mexicans, even day laborers are overweight so...? 😕
 
bignateyk said:
That's just an excuse fat people use. You can eat healthy meals for incredible cheap. Fat people are just too lazy to cook.

Things like lean chicken breasts, oats, mixed greens, bananas, tuna, and endless other healthy foods can be had for much cheaper than processed foods like potato chips, easy mac, fast food, etc...
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so true...

if in 'your experience' eating healthy is more expensive, then you are just not very bright and are falling into the fad 'low fat' diets which people think are healthier than just cooking other foods.

$5 for some 'fat free' ice cream instead of $3 for the normal ice cream, when in reality, neither of those are healthy for you.
 
Sit in your cubicle for 12 hours and eat there! What do you mean you want time off!!!

And while we're at it, why are you so damn fat????
 
I'd love it if the "healthy food is cheaper" lie were true, but it is not. So far I've seen something about eating a ton of beans because Mexico is known for its health food and a suggestion that I must be an idiot eating low fat ice cream all day. Produce was barely mentioned, because we all know most Americans eat to many expensive veggies anyway.

It is not cheaper. And of course, nothing is easier than opening a bag of chips...even if that isn't relevant to the point.

Calorie for calorie, shit calories from junk will always win. In fact, they are 10 times cheaper:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/
 
PingSpike said:
I'd love it if the "healthy food is cheaper" lie were true, but it is not. So far I've seen something about eating a ton of beans because Mexico is known for its health food and a suggestion that I must be an idiot eating low fat ice cream all day. Produce was barely mentioned, because we all know most Americans eat to many expensive veggies anyway.

It is not cheaper. And of course, nothing is easier than opening a bag of chips...even if that isn't relevant to the point.

Calorie for calorie, shit calories from junk will always win. In fact, they are 10 times cheaper:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/
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Care to address the fact that exercise is basically free? Or do you just concentrate on intake, like most fat people do?
 
OCGuy said:
Care to address the fact that exercise is basically free? Or do you just concentrate on intake, like most fat people do?
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I'm not sure what about that you'd like me to address, exercise is basically free...did some one say it wasn't? Would you also like me to address the color of the sky, our education system and the price of tea and China?
 
PingSpike said:
And of course, nothing is easier than opening a bag of chips...even if that isn't relevant to the point.
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And shitting my pants here at my desk is a lot easier than getting up and going to the toilet.

Luckily humans were given the intelligence to not always to the "easy" thing if it is detrimental to us.
 
PingSpike said:
I'd love it if the "healthy food is cheaper" lie were true, but it is not. So far I've seen something about eating a ton of beans because Mexico is known for its health food and a suggestion that I must be an idiot eating low fat ice cream all day. Produce was barely mentioned, because we all know most Americans eat to many expensive veggies anyway.

It is not cheaper. And of course, nothing is easier than opening a bag of chips...even if that isn't relevant to the point.

Calorie for calorie, shit calories from junk will always win. In fact, they are 10 times cheaper:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/
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Calorie for calorie, no shit, of course junk food is cheaper, because it's all carbs. Fat people don't need to be concerned about "calorie for calorie". That only applies if you are trying to stuff as many calories as possible into your fat face.

The real truth is that you can put together a healthy meal for cheaper than junk food. It might not have as many calories, but like I said above, and thought was obvious, fat people don't need more calories. They need less.

Bulk chicken breasts, canned tuna, oats, mixed greens, bananas, carrots, frozen fruits, and eggs are all incredibly cheap. Sure, they don't pack a lot of calories, but you can make a filling meal from them.

You could make 20 different healthy meals alone just from those cheap, healthy ingredients.

You don't need to have a starch with every meal. I think that's where fat people get confused. A meal for a fat person is 3lbs of carbs, some fat, and no veggies.
 
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OCGuy said:
Care to address the fact that exercise is basically free? Or do you just concentrate on intake, like most fat people do?
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I'd argue the opposite is truer, which is why people can spend an hour in the gym everyday and not lose weight, because they aren't watching their intake.

It's a combination of the two really. No matter what you eat or how much you work out, you need a calorie deficit to lose the weight.
 
PingSpike said:
I'm not sure what about that you'd like me to address, exercise is basically free...did some one say it wasn't? Would you also like me to address the color of the sky, our education system and the price of tea and China?
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Are you being intentionally obtuse?

People use the price of healthy food as justification for being a fat ass. You can eat calorie-dense food and negate the effects of it by exercising.

Exercising is free.
 
"The report was financed by one of the manufacturers of gastric banding, a type of obesity surgery."

Apparently I'm the only one who read this part...
 
OCGuy said:
Are you being intentionally obtuse?

People use the price of healthy food as justification for being a fat ass. You can eat calorie-dense food and negate the effects of it by exercising.

Exercising is free.
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Thanks for the science lesson? Any other nuggets of wisdom everyone already knew I should write down?

Or did you think I disagreed with any of those things? Just because people use the extra cost of healthy food as an excuse doesn't mean it isn't actually more expensive.
 
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