Huh, guess I might technically live in a food dessert
low-income census tracts that are more than one mile from a supermarket in urban or suburban areas and more than 10 miles from a supermarket in rural areas.
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 months agoalmost every corner of the US you will find basic ingredients (eg rice, beans, carrots, celery, corn, potatoes, pasta) are way less expensive than the pre-prepared slop in boxes
Someone never heard about food deserts.
People are addicted to that sugary shit and actively choose it
Way to victim-blame both addicts and people with little to no healthy choices available.
mob@lemmy.world 6 months ago
SuperIce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More than 1 mile in suburban areas is extremely common, but I wouldn’t consider most of them to be good desserts.
gears@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Low healthy food demand == choosing sugar
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
First of all, that’s one “devils advocate however” in an article full of information to the contrary.
Second of all, I’d be interested in seeing who funded those studies. Lobbying groups for different unhealthy foods as well as grocery stores looking for excuses to not cater to poor people often fund junk studies that say exactly what they want them to. Just like Big Tobacco did and political groups still do.
Third, addiction still ≠ choice and sugar is more addictive than most narcotics.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 months ago
Just on your last point, sugar is not more addictive than narcotics. That’s complete bunk. Provide a primary source for that claim if you want to refute me, but all those headlines about that topic were sensational and were basically based on sugar lighting up the same part of the brain as narcotics, namely the pleasure areas. So we like them both, but that has no bearing on addictiveness.