It’s partly shit insurance (or lack thereof) that won’t pay for preventative health care. But it’s also partly food deserts, terrible working conditions with not enough time off, poor wages, companies being given too much leeway to engineer addictive foods, etc. And of course partly personal choices.
But let’s not pretend late stage capitalism plays no part.
Not to play the devils advocate here, US FDA is the worlds longest running joke and their health care even worse, but lets not pretend it’s not our own decision what we shove in our mouths.
And yes, ofcourse eating disorders and health issues exist that make it harder, if you suffer from one you might need to lean on healthcare, but in most instances you can still improve your own situation somewhat.
I greatly dislike the “i can’t do anything because XYZ sucks” mentality. Yes you can, it’s just harder.
but lets not pretend it’s not our own decision what we shove in our mouths.
If it is for you, you should consider yourself lucky, compared to big portion of the US population (or world population for that matter, but we’re talking US now). Just like you can’t just will yourself into owning a big house, or whatever luxury you can’t afford, a lot of people can’t will themselves into having enough money and time to have a proper food selection. That’s not even talking about the fact that for a lot of people it will require moving into some other part of the country.
Proper healthy food is vastly cheaper. It takes an hour to meal prep for a family for a week. At best there is an education issue for the vast majority. And most of those people in food desserts make shitty decisions and buy shit food when given the option.
Roast some chicken thighs with a Mexican, Indian, and usually Italian rub or marinade. I’ll slow cook a pork butt and shred it as well. Freezem both up.
When I’m tired and don’t want to make a real meal I’ll heat up one of those, and quickly blanch or roast some veggies store them as well for a quick reheat. It’s delicious and frees me up for more fancy meals when I have the time.
It’s partly shit insurance (or lack thereof) that won’t pay for preventative health care. But it’s also partly food deserts, terrible working conditions with not enough time off, poor wages, companies being given too much leeway to engineer addictive foods, etc. And of course partly personal choices.
But let’s not pretend late stage capitalism plays no part.
Not to play the devils advocate here, US FDA is the worlds longest running joke and their health care even worse, but lets not pretend it’s not our own decision what we shove in our mouths.
And yes, ofcourse eating disorders and health issues exist that make it harder, if you suffer from one you might need to lean on healthcare, but in most instances you can still improve your own situation somewhat.
I greatly dislike the “i can’t do anything because XYZ sucks” mentality. Yes you can, it’s just harder.
If it is for you, you should consider yourself lucky, compared to big portion of the US population (or world population for that matter, but we’re talking US now). Just like you can’t just will yourself into owning a big house, or whatever luxury you can’t afford, a lot of people can’t will themselves into having enough money and time to have a proper food selection. That’s not even talking about the fact that for a lot of people it will require moving into some other part of the country.
Proper healthy food is vastly cheaper. It takes an hour to meal prep for a family for a week. At best there is an education issue for the vast majority. And most of those people in food desserts make shitty decisions and buy shit food when given the option.
Stop this nonsense.
i keep hearing this nonsense and every time people show or describe to me what they’ve done or how they eat, it’s depressing.
Roast some chicken thighs with a Mexican, Indian, and usually Italian rub or marinade. I’ll slow cook a pork butt and shred it as well. Freezem both up.
When I’m tired and don’t want to make a real meal I’ll heat up one of those, and quickly blanch or roast some veggies store them as well for a quick reheat. It’s delicious and frees me up for more fancy meals when I have the time.
see that’s where we disagree. if you can slow cook a pork butt in an hour it’s nasty as hell.
It’s an 8 hour cook, 5 minute prep thing. It’s great and makes burritos for 2 weeks.
if you can prep a pork butt in five minutes it’s nasty as hell.
i know i can make my own okonomiyaki, but if i only buy it it’s a special occasion food and then it tastes fancier.