UK: Obese woman blames government

[Sava]

Eating healthy is cheaper than eating crap.

Still wrong.

[Sava]

So let's recap. Everyone who said that eating healthier is cheaper is wrong.

[DinoDoc]

Natural selection resolves most such problems in the long term.

That only works if you are willing to cut her off the dole.

[Bereta_Eder]

One of my favorite writers is teaching at a ghetto school in the US (somewhere in New York, in China Town?) and she writes from time to time from there.
She says good healthy food like we have on our doorstep is difficult to find there. She says americans have to drive quite some time to find fresh vegetables or healthy meat and that nearly everything is genetically modified there.
And she loves murica so I don't think she's telling it like that.

[Sava]

That only works if you are willing to cut her off the dole.

Just fly to England (UK story, right?) and shoot her in the head yourself...

the kids too, they're infected with poverty

[kentonio]

That only works if you are willing to cut her off the dole.

Not at all, she'll live far less time than someone who eats healthily.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Reg didn't say healthy food is cheaper than the cheapest junk food.

[Sava]

Reg didn't say healthy food is cheaper than the cheapest junk food.

There are a lot of things reg didn't say.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

All those poor obese diabetic people in third world countries who can't afford to eat healthy...

[Sava]

[regexcellent]

You know what's cheaper than eating junk food?

Eating less junk food. You can eat junk food and lose weight. You just...eat less! It's really ****ing simple.

Also, healthy food actually is cheaper than pretty much all junk food. I swear to god, have you ever looked at how much ****ing celery costs? Packaged food is way, way, way more expensive than the cheapest stuff in the produce aisle and I guarantee it. Even frozen vegetables are only like $1 a bag. I have boxes of frozen spinach I paid 80 cents for apiece. If you're trying to lose weight, that makes a perfectly acceptable lunch. Nuke for 6 minutes and eat it out of the box.

Cans of peas. 50 cents from my local grocery store. 245 calories and it's a LOT of food, it will fill you up. Just open it up and eat it with a spoon. I do that all the time.

Black beans. 75 cents I think? Whole ****load of calories. Again, you can eat it out of the can.

e: I almost forgot, I get apples in huge bags for ~$1 a pound or so. Eat those.

[The Mad Monk]

Not at all, she'll live far less time than someone who eats healthily.

She's already reproduced. Natural selection in action.

[kentonio]

She's already reproduced. Natural selection in action.

Natural selection doesn't preclude reproduction in doomed branches.

[The Mad Monk]

Only if her kids die before they reproduce, otherwise it can't be called a "doomed branch".

That's what fitness actually is -- having grandkids.

[kentonio]

Only if her kids die before they reproduce, otherwise it can't be called a "doomed branch".

That's what fitness actually is -- having grandkids.

If the long term result is shorter lifespans (without any resultant advantages) then thats a failure. Especially as her housebound existence also greatly reduces her choice of genetic stock for breeding.