Comments on: Slender results for nutrition ed

By: Mitch the Bitch

Mitch the Bitch — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:14:28 +0000

Yea Marta, those chains holding the losers inside the inner city are unbreakable.

All of you idiots need to get a clue… It’s all about INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILTY!!!!! If you want to eat healthy then eat healthy but get the hell out of my mouth you stinking food nazi’s.

If you want to feed your kids healthy food the TEACH the little bastards to eat right not ship em off to some government funded baby sitting service. In fact bring a fn lucnh it’s not my job to give your kids food…

Just more liberal BS and it’s ongoing fight to kill America and implement a Communist Government. Thanks for that!

If you want to take money out of your own pocket and give it away GREAT! But keep your stinky smelly commie hands out of my pocket….

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:57:32 +0000

Until school cafeterias REPLACE unhealthy foods with more healthy choices, the problem will continue. What kid is going to choose fruit and vegetables over cheese pizza or a burger and fries? It’s not enough to simply offer healthy alternatives at school – everything we put in front of our kids needs to be a healthy choice.

By: Walter E. Wallis

Walter E. Wallis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:47:04 +0000

You mean they don’t issue beer and cigarette stamps? Those brutes!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:16:55 +0000

People do what they want to do! They eat what they want to eat. Money is not the issue. During the post 9/11 recession my husband did not have substantial work for about 18 months. We needed some help to get on our feet so we used food stamps for about 6 months. We did not have to eat chips and cookies, soda pop, etc., to survive. We ate chicken, vegetables, fruits, etc. Why is it that the people who are always whining that they don’t have the money to eat healthy are also mostly the ones who always have money for beer and cigarettes.

By: Richard Cook

Richard Cook — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:45:57 +0000

Most people I have seen that live in the ‘hood (my creds: Near West Side Chicago 1987-1997) have a car. The Jewel was five minutes aways. Seems like the ability to process and act on information is the problem here.

By: markm

markm — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:17:56 +0000

Marta: Junk food is only cheaper if you’re shopping at stores that cater to junk food junkies. The reason you find such stores in poor neighborhoods is that’s what the people in the neighborhood buy. A storeowner doesn’t stay in business by offering what his customers won’t buy.

By: Right Wing Nation

Right Wing Nation — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:02:31 +0000

[...] Joanne Jacobs points to a report that yet another big government program doesn’t work. The headline is, and I do quote with great relish, “School child obesity programs are failing, experts say.” The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education [...]

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:00:48 +0000

Come now, Joanne. Your closing was all wrong. Are you implying that, when parents make the *wrong* choices for their kids, that the school shouldn’t come along and make the *right* choices for them?

(sarcasm /off)

By: Marta

Marta — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:28:33 +0000

Junk food is definitely cheaper if your only nearby option is an inner city grocery or corner store. Availability and selection of produce for those who don’t have easy access to large markets does make junk food cheaper.

By: Deirdre Mundy

Deirdre Mundy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:14:55 +0000

By the way — the article says that the poor are more likely to be fat because junk food is cheaper…

But over the fourth we had company and decided to get chips (a rare purchase for us..)

A pound of chips was the same price as a pound of sirloin….

And the sirloin is MUCH healthier, and really is more filling (1 pound feeds 4 people, where as a kid will plow through a whole bag of chips on their own…)

Fruit is often on sale (in season) for under a dollar a pound.

Broccoli goes on sale for a dollar a pound……..

It seems to me that the “junk food is cheaper” meme might be false, at least in Northern Indiana……

Quicker, yes. Easier to prepare, yes. But not cheaper…..

(Milk is cheaper than the equivelant number of ice cream servings, too…… )