I do feel that parents share a responsibility. Then again, the parents are often also fat, so the cause might go deeper than overfeeding the kid
This meme is art
It’s so expensive and time consuming to eat healthy, even more expensive if you want quality ingredients.
Meanwhile, junk food is quick, cheap, and tastes “better” because they just pack it full of sugar or have no regard for nutrition.
There’s really little incentive to eat healthy unless you’re making a conscious decision to be healthier.
I’ve found that 9 out of 10 calls for “individual action” to solve a societal ail is only solvable by regulating large companies and industry. Most of the time, the companies themselves are the ones funding the campaign for individual action and awareness. ReMEMbEr tO ReCYcLE!
Isn’t this what Michelle Obama tried to do? What would you (or anyone else wanting to pitch in) suggest for policies?
the my plate shenanigans was just replacing high calorie density foods with low density foods but obfuscated by using volume as a measurement.
they did nothing to address food deserts.
I mean, it is the fault of the person buying the food. Healthy families don’t eat fast food 5 times a week, and they don’t shop in the middle aisles for all of their food. That being said, most Americans don’t know how to cook or feed themselves properly and that’s a failure of the education system. Well, it would be a failure if it wasn’t part of the actual plan to dumb down Westerners.
Edit: holy shit, some of these comments. Yall are fucked. Eat a goddamn vegetable and look up a recipe once in a while, why don’t ya?
One big issue is that many poor families don’t have much time to cook. Yeah, there are things that can be prepared quickly and in bulk for later, but that’s harder than some frozen meal or fast food. There’s many socio-economic factors at play that need to be addressed.
