Economics of Healthy Living

[Aliantha]

Well thanks for making a thread to tell me something I already know aimeecc.

I wasn't specifically talking about organic food though. I was talking about having a whole food diet wherever possible regardless of it's organic status.

It's cheaper and more filling to eat a packet of ramen noodles than it is to buy an orange, particularly if they happen to be out of season. The oranges not the noodles of course.

eta: About the lead in the paint on kids toys, you should lobby your government about not allowing such things into the country. In Australia, led in paint is illegal and toys found to contain led either in the mechanism or the paint are rejected. Of course, that doesn't stop things like bindi beads from arriving here.

[aimeecc]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Well thanks for making a thread to tell me something I already know aimeecc.

lol. I know you know. Just wanted a diversion from other topics.

I was listening to NPR the other day and they were talking about how in DC (and I'm sure a lot of other inner cities), the poor really only have unhealthy options. There's not an abundance of grocery stores, so if you're poor, without a car, its much more cost effective to go to MacDonalds than to try to get to a grocery store, and pay high prices for healthy food.