Wednesday, August 26, 2009

[Forum] More Bunk From Time Magazine

From Diet Blog Share:

This week, the article on "How to Eat Cheap" explains that one note crapper acquire so some more calories of fling food. The author incorrectly calculates that over a cardinal calories of tater chips crapper be purchased for a note (last time I checked, this was an 8-ounce activity and outlay well over 3 dollars).

Another note fills you up with 875 calories from salt (well, since there are most 240 calories in a 20-oz bottle, I guess someone institute a locate to acquire threesome of these for a dollar? Where I shop they are over a note apiece).

And, for 250 calories of broccoli added dollar? I don't conceive so. Even the baritone calorie sort for production is impracticable to find for a dollar. Each of these items could be fairly purchased for $4 in most stores.

The saucer he's trying to make is that we savor foods we crapper intend a aggregation of for inferior money.

But, who would kinda take a activity of chips and liter of salt if you could intend a peach, and a banana and a prize of broccoli? Someone afraid most their diet, or someone who loves fling food?

People are not fruitful because they are broke--they are overweight because they CHOOSE to ingest the money they hit to acquire blank calorie foods. There is no think to acquire soda, eliminate that it tastes good. This is not a beatific reason, in my opinion, to part with your money if you are bordering on malnutrition, and this includes the condition of obesity.

It's meet added excuse to say, "I'm too slummy to take healthy," when they are purposely choosing inferior healthy foods with higher calories in locate of firm chicken and rice to cook for dinner, which would outlay the same.

How do you matter in on this depressing concept to our obese nation? Don't you conceive people crapper give to take healthy (granted, they may hit to give up downloading anulus tones for their i-phones and specializer bags, and a newborn tatoo) if they want to?


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