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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Boycotts (was Re: Why are many low-income women fat?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.020517.474@netcom.com>
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- References: <C185KJ.uA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan27.051002.15024@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> <JBrandt-270193130032@fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:05:17 GMT
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- In article <JBrandt-270193130032@fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Pegasus) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.051002.15024@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>,
- >mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko) wrote:
- >>
- >> In article <C185KJ.uA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >> >
- >Did it occur to any one, that poor women are fatter because of poor
- >nutritional education.
-
- While this may be correct.
-
- > Foods that are high in fats and starches are
- >cheeper in cost then those that are not.
-
- This is not. Eat more vegetables (fresh vegatables are the cheapest foods
- in the store, and the most nutritious), less meats (high fats and high cost),
- and balance with breads and pasta (relatively inexpensive as well).
-
- >You buy what you can afford.
-
- You buy what you have learned to buy, no matter how inappropriate that
- may be.
-
- > Try this go to the store look at the items that are labled "Lite", "low
- >or no . .", "Heathly ", "diet . . ." etc. and compare equivalent products
- >that are not so labled and the ones with the heathy lables the price is
- >heafter.
-
- Stay away from this part of the store. You will spend more and get far less.
-
- > Olive oil is one example I can think of, another one is "Adams" no
- >salt peanutbutter is half the price of the peanutbutters labled "low or no
- >salt" found in the dietetic sections or in the health food stores and the
- >same quality of peanutbutter.
-
- I would go easy on those medical findings. Take cholesterol. First that said
- that -all- cholesterol ws bad (caused arterial plaques). Further studies
- showed that this was a bit simplistic, there were two types, high-density
- and low-density, the good and bad cholesterol. So people have been eating
- low cholesterol foods. A recent study shows that older men with low cholesterol
- levels have significantly higher levels of clinical depression than those
- with high colesterol. And it seems that high cholesterol is more normal for
- women. Who knows what tomorrows advice will be, perhaps eat foods high in
- cholesterol.
-
- BTW, I know a woman who was having joint problems till she added salt back
- in her diet.
-
- The simplest and best advice that I have read is to just eat real foods.
- Reduce your intake of highly processed and junk foods, and you will eat
- healthier, and much cheaper. A good diet is the less expensive option.
-
- >Why are they fatter, its more cost effective to buy the cheepest food which
- >are high fat ect.
-
- You mean the cheapest meats and processed foods, and it is not cost effective
- at all.
-
- >Pegasus
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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