Property Values Predict Obesity

Becca said:

Hmmm, I need to have a peek at my neighbors.

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Becca

Duh. More money means you can afford to eat better, for many reasons.

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Hmmm, I need to have a peek at my neighbors.

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Becca

This is obviously just a correlation and not a causal relationship. You
might as well say that obesity rates predict property values.

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Peter Aitken

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Hmmm, I need to have a peek at my neighbors.

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Becca

Poverty is highly associated with obesity. Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0400, T <[email hidden]>

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Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

It just pisses me off to see a doublewide divorcee with a grocery cart
full of Klondikes, Twinkies and Ho-Ho's and then have the nerve to pay
for the garbage with food stamps. I should have a say what they can
buy...it WAS MY MONEY!

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0400, T <[email hidden]>

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Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

It just pisses me off to see a doublewide divorcee with a grocery cart
full of Klondikes, Twinkies and Ho-Ho's and then have the nerve to pay
for the garbage with food stamps. I should have a say what they can
buy...it WAS MY MONEY!

You're becoming predictable. Canned [censored]. ho ho hum.

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Becca said:

Hmmm, I need to have a peek at my neighbors.

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Becca

Duh. More money means you can afford to eat better, for many reasons.

Yet still, so many don't.

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0400, T <[email hidden]>

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Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

It just pisses me off to see a doublewide divorcee with a grocery cart
full of Klondikes, Twinkies and Ho-Ho's and then have the nerve to pay
for the garbage with food stamps. I should have a say what they can
buy...it WAS MY MONEY!

I'm impressed at your psychic abilities!!

I've never been able to tell just from what's in someone's cart if they're
divorced or not. Since this state doesn't have paper food stamps anymore I
can't tell if they're paying with food stamps or a debit card.

Ms P

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I'm impressed at your psychic abilities!!

Thank you. I impress myself daily.

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Hmmm, I need to have a peek at my neighbors.

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Becca

Poverty is highly associated with obesity. Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

What about those dried corn-flakes cereal boxed thingies? geez, I can't
afford that! I don't want it in the first place, but I could never afford
to buy it. I don't see many cracker type things for much less than $3 a lb.
Sometimes more.
Good lord, what do English muffins sell for -- buy something decent for
that price-per-pound.

Not all carbs are bad. Some may think so -- but I'll take a carrot for
carbs any day vs. white Wonder bread, I can get carrots for less per pound
than a price per pound of crappy potato chips and other boxed [censored]/carbs.

What makes anyone think that the obese would be thin if they had the
money -- Geez, take a look around at the fat rich ole ladies. Of course,
they are hard to recognize because they are so obese. I think for the most
part, there are so many factors involved in obesity, and poverty is just one
of them.

I had a friend who is quite successful and she had mentioned the fact that
she had gained so much weight, and that she was skinny when we met. She
said many times that it was because she was so poor. You don't hear that
side of it often anymore.

I might mention also that when I was poor, I was NEVER fat either. But then
again, I'm a special case -- he he!

Dee Dee

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0400, T <[email hidden]>

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Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

It just pisses me off to see a doublewide divorcee with a grocery cart
full of Klondikes, Twinkies and Ho-Ho's and then have the nerve to pay
for the garbage with food stamps. I should have a say what they can
buy...it WAS MY MONEY!

I'm impressed at your psychic abilities!!

I've never been able to tell just from what's in someone's cart if they're
divorced or not. Since this state doesn't have paper food stamps anymore
I can't tell if they're paying with food stamps or a debit card.

Ms P

As well, I've never been able to tell an obese person's financial status by
what they have in their cart.
Dee Dee

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0400, T <[email hidden]>

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Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

It just pisses me off to see a doublewide divorcee with a grocery cart
full of Klondikes, Twinkies and Ho-Ho's and then have the nerve to pay
for the garbage with food stamps. I should have a say what they can
buy...it WAS MY MONEY!

An infitesimaly small amount may well have been your money. But by your
logic, you'd be able to tell me what to buy if you lived in my state.
Why? I'm a state employee. Your tax dollars pay my salary, but then my
tax dollars get mixed into the same pool.

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0400, T <[email hidden]>

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Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

It just pisses me off to see a doublewide divorcee with a grocery cart
full of Klondikes, Twinkies and Ho-Ho's and then have the nerve to pay
for the garbage with food stamps. I should have a say what they can
buy...it WAS MY MONEY!

An infitesimaly small amount may well have been your money. But by your
logic, you'd be able to tell me what to buy if you lived in my state.
Why? I'm a state employee. Your tax dollars pay my salary, but then my
tax dollars get mixed into the same pool.

Perhaps he thinks she wasn't working.
But you are working and productive.
Dee Dee

Ward Abbott said:

It just pisses me off to see a doublewide divorcee with a grocery cart
full of Klondikes, Twinkies and Ho-Ho's and then have the nerve to pay
for the garbage with food stamps. I should have a say what they can
buy...it WAS MY MONEY!

Have you met Jerry Sauk? You two think alike.

-sw

Ward Abbott said:

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0400, T

It just pisses me off to see a doublewide divorcee with a grocery cart
full of Klondikes, Twinkies and Ho-Ho's and then have the nerve to pay
for the garbage with food stamps. I should have a say what they can
buy...it WAS MY MONEY!

Some people who receive food stamps (and no, I don't any longer... they
don't go on in perpetuitylso paid THEIR OWN MONEY into that system for 20+
years.

I sure as Hell didn't mind asking for a little help when I needed it, yet it
took 2 years before anyone acknowledged I could actually get this kind of
help. I lived off my savings. (And I never got any other help, BTW. Why?
Because I don't have kids and/or their kids to support. In those
situations, "grandma's" who are still taking care of their adult kids and
all of their kids seem to get a free pass. Not fair but it's the truth, at
least in Tennessee.)

The prevailing attitude of some people that anyone who might need some
assistance which *they themselves paid into for countless years* are all
"deadbeats" just amazes me. Wish I could have dragged some of you with me
when I applied for benefits. The ones who were "reupping" their benefits
(and trust me, you could hear their conversations loud and clear) were
wearing more gold jewelry than you could shake a stick at. They had cell
phones permanently plastered to their ears, wearing the latest hair fashions
(interpret that however you want to), sculpted nails out to HERE and 2-3
children in tow. <shrugs> Such is the system.

Jill

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Becca

I'd like to see this one followed up by education levels...
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Becca said:

Hmmm, I need to have a peek at my neighbors.

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Becca

Duh. More money means you can afford to eat better, for many reasons.

I thought about that too.
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Hmmm, I need to have a peek at my neighbors.

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Becca

Poverty is highly associated with obesity. Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

Indeed...

Doctors tell us to eat at least 2 servings of fish per week, higher fat
sea fish such as Salmon etc. $6.00 per lb. on up.

Fine doc'. Ya wanna buy it for me?
I can't justify the cost of eating it more than a couple of times per
month. Not when chicken is $.79 to $1.29 and pork is less expensive than
good beef (and fish).

Canned tuna is too high in salt to eat regularly but it is affordable.

Catfish nuggets right now are $1.69.

Fresh veggies (and fresh frozen) on the other hand are quite affordable.
My grossery bill is lower when I buy more of them. And we like them. ;-d
Fruit tends to be a bit higher but not always. Depends on season.

Rice, beans, pasta and bread are some of the lowest priced food on the
market.
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Dee Dee said:

Not all carbs are bad. Some may think so -- but I'll take a carrot for
carbs any day vs. white Wonder bread, I can get carrots for less per pound
than a price per pound of crappy potato chips and other boxed [censored]/carbs.

Hear hear! :-)
The price per lb. of many fresh veggies are not really that bad at all!

The biggest problem I thing is education.
SO many people don't know how to cook, or are too lazy to.
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Hmmm, I need to have a peek at my neighbors.

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Becca

Poverty is highly associated with obesity. Someday when you get a chance
walk into a convenience store and note the prices on the cheap carbs and
then prices on fruits if the store carries such things.

The cheap carbs win out.

Indeed...

Doctors tell us to eat at least 2 servings of fish per week, higher fat
sea fish such as Salmon etc. $6.00 per lb. on up.

Fine doc'. Ya wanna buy it for me?
I can't justify the cost of eating it more than a couple of times per
month. Not when chicken is $.79 to $1.29 and pork is less expensive than
good beef (and fish).

Yesterday's Albertson's flyer - "Fresh Atlantic Salmon Fillets $3.99/#".
A serving is what, 4oz? So $2/week? $3/week with your prices?

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Canned tuna is too high in salt to eat regularly but it is affordable.

I prefer the pouches, and it has to be oil pack, not water pack (ick!).

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Catfish nuggets right now are $1.69.

Catfish is always a cheap one, unfortunately it also is best fried so
there goes the healthy part.

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Fresh veggies (and fresh frozen) on the other hand are quite affordable.
My grossery bill is lower when I buy more of them. And we like them. ;-d
Fruit tends to be a bit higher but not always. Depends on season.

Fresh veggies are also feasible to grow yourself in many cases.

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Rice, beans, pasta and bread are some of the lowest priced food on the
market.

Yep. The problem there is what you serve with them.