Addicted, or all they can really afford. Funny how the most processed, shelf stable stuff is the cheapest. I cant even bring myself to eat mac and cheese for example because I know its just full of shit with zero nutrition in it. Watching that tik tok dietician influencer claiming that mac and cheese cups in a plastic bowl heated up at your gas station is a relatively healthy snack.
People getting paid some big money to spread misinformation around.
This is a commonly repeated canard, but it doesn't actually wash. Cheap, processed, packaged food is only cheaper if comparing single-servings.
Buying things like rice, flour, corn in minor bulk (not talking much, maybe a pound or more) and fresh vegetables, and combining them into actual meals, costs less per serving than this fake-wheat-palm-oil-assembled-into-food-shapes bullshit.
It doesn't keep nearly as well, because microbes and microflora also consider these meals to be food, unlike that other shit. But cost is not the prevailing issue here--it's knowledge, effort, and will.
That is an interesting point you made, because the price difference is a misconception.
Eating the cheap junk food only drives hunger even more, causing people to eat even more.
The paradox of healthy eating is that, despite it being more expensive, the food will fill you up to such an absurd degree that you will intuitively eat significantly less, resulting in a smaller food bill. The irony is that cheaply priced junk food is significantly more expensive.
From personal experience, I can comfortably subsist on a 48 hour fast if I eat ~6 dollars worth of meat. I would barely last 4 hours if I ate ~6 dollars worth of ultra processed garbage.
Addicted, or all they can really afford. Funny how the most processed, shelf stable stuff is the cheapest. I cant even bring myself to eat mac and cheese for example because I know its just full of shit with zero nutrition in it. Watching that tik tok dietician influencer claiming that mac and cheese cups in a plastic bowl heated up at your gas station is a relatively healthy snack.
People getting paid some big money to spread misinformation around.
This is a commonly repeated canard, but it doesn't actually wash. Cheap, processed, packaged food is only cheaper if comparing single-servings.
Buying things like rice, flour, corn in minor bulk (not talking much, maybe a pound or more) and fresh vegetables, and combining them into actual meals, costs less per serving than this fake-wheat-palm-oil-assembled-into-food-shapes bullshit.
It doesn't keep nearly as well, because microbes and microflora also consider these meals to be food, unlike that other shit. But cost is not the prevailing issue here--it's knowledge, effort, and will.
That is an interesting point you made, because the price difference is a misconception.
Eating the cheap junk food only drives hunger even more, causing people to eat even more.
The paradox of healthy eating is that, despite it being more expensive, the food will fill you up to such an absurd degree that you will intuitively eat significantly less, resulting in a smaller food bill. The irony is that cheaply priced junk food is significantly more expensive.
From personal experience, I can comfortably subsist on a 48 hour fast if I eat ~6 dollars worth of meat. I would barely last 4 hours if I ate ~6 dollars worth of ultra processed garbage.