Being Poor Doesn’t Mean You’ve Got to Eat Garbage
Poor Have Difficulty Eating Healthy Foods
“Energy-dense foods rich in starch, sugar or fat are the cheapest option for the consumer,” said Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington. “As long as the healthier lean meats, fish and fresh produce are more expensive, obesity will continue to be a problem for the working poor.”
Well, NO. As long as people believe they’ve got to include meat in their diets, healthy eating will be a problem for the poor. It’s an education problem, really — not an affordability problem. What people like Adam Drewnowski should be doing is educating consumers about vegetarian foods.
Earlier in this salon.com wire story, a poor woman comments “we’d all like to feed our children a nice healthy chicken breast and asparagus” but that it’s less expensive to feed them macaroni and cheese. This is a perfect example of a person who needs to learn about vegetarian diets. She could buy a can of fat-free refried beans, some whole wheat tortillas, and some fresh veggies and easily put together burritos that her children would probably LOVE eating. They taste good AND they’re healthy AND they’re inexpensive.
Eating vegetarian is healthier and cheaper than feeding your kids Kraft macaroni and cheese or Burger King crap.
Posted by RebeccaHartong on September 28, 2005 under Uncategorized
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