Hunger and Obesity Are the Same Problem in the US
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OfTheCross
Veteran
That study needs to be studied more
humminbird
Veteran
yeah calorie dense vs nutrient-dense foods
a lot of people can be eating poorly but because the foods are so high in caliores they're eating more than they should because the foods don't fill them up
a lot of people can be eating poorly but because the foods are so high in caliores they're eating more than they should because the foods don't fill them up
OfTheCross
Veteran
My thing is... drinking water fills you up too.
I'm confused as to how you can be suffering from chronic hunger and chronic obesity
And also a lot of the people who can afford food have no idea how to properly eat too. They have some broccoli with dinner and an apple mid day and think that’s cool. My wife didn’t even know that whole 3 square meals a day thing was a ploy to just get people to over spend on food. People aren’t really educated about anything outside of work and sports here.
A lot of people are eating food that fills you up and then gets shytted out with out any nutrients being left to absorb and also help your body grow. It just comes in and out but the calories basically sit in your fat and that’s it. So essentially they aren’t retaining anything from their food in their gut and other parts of their body, add in the lack of working out, they get fat, and still end up feeling hungry anyway
Not to mention the stress, which willed the body up in pretty much every way imaginable and probably in ways we still don’t know yet
humminbird
Veteran
take an apple and then take one of those tiny lays chips bags
an apple is 95 calories and would keep you fuller longer than that single bag of chips because of fiber and all of that which keeps you full
the bag of chips which is 160 calories doesn't. have you ever felt full after eating one serving of chips?
that's the other thing this type of person doesn't drink water they drink soda/juice more
FieldMouse51
Pro
A lot of the correlation between obesity and poverty is a lack of mental bandwidth. When you are struggling to pay a bill, you don't have that energy to do meal planning, budgeting, etc. So you go for that quick fast food meal. On top of that, the degree now to which these foods are made the called "hyper-satiety" which is just high as hell in salt and sugar.
I'm guilty of the same thing as a father, when my wife and I are exhausted at the end of the day, there is that temptation to just get the easy fast food meal for my kids and be done with it.
I'm guilty of the same thing as a father, when my wife and I are exhausted at the end of the day, there is that temptation to just get the easy fast food meal for my kids and be done with it.
