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Originally Posted by tarcone
Too many food deserts in the poor areas. Maybe subsidize people in those areas to open healthy food markets with affordable food. It would create jobs and businesses in the areas if most need.
Tge problem is processed foods loaded with sugar (i.e. high fructose corn syrup) as are fast food. Bad diet makes lazy people, which makes obese people. Its an ugly cycle.
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Yeah, agree with this. The key obviously is affordable and easy. While you'd love to tell people to cook with lean options and vegetables, that's expensive and takes time. It's human nature to grab and go.
What about programs that eliminates sales tax and offers some kind of rebate or price incentive for actually healthy fast food? And I'm not talking about the kind of salad you get at McDonalds or El Pollo Loco that is loaded with cheese, dressing and croutons and is 1300 calories, but it's not that hard to make a relatively healthy chicken or fish entree. The problem would still be that you'd have to make the 99 cent cheeseburger three times the cost to incentivize people, and nobody is going to vote for that.