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[robby]

The ABC network news did a story tonight on how a large number of Americans in their 50's don't have enough to eat. The couple that they highlighted were morbidly obese, each seemingly 75 to 100 lbs overweight. Their refrigerator seemed full of food, but the wife offered that things were so terrible that she didn't want to get up in the morning.
Somedays they didn't have enough milk for their cereal.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/hunger_at_home/americans-50s-facing-hunger/story?id=14415140

Comments

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

This obesity/scarcity conundrum is really an odd one but basically it's that people living in poverty seem to exist on a diet of hugely caloric, high corn syrup/fructose, low nutrient, relatively low cost foods.

[robby.livejournal.com]

ABC News could have waited to find a better example for their story. This couple can fully stock the refrigerator, including plenty of soda, but want my sympathy. It seems that for these two, the issue is poor food choices, not hunger or lack of money.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Soda here is about 50 cents a can; milk is twice that.

People with limited funds will buy soda -- twice the bang for the buck, right?

I understand the source of yr discontent with this couple as an example and I didn't actually read the story. :-) But the obesity/diabetes epidemic in America isn't all about lazy, self-indulgent people making poor food choices; it's also about hungry people buying cheap food.

[robby.livejournal.com]

These people need a Richard Simmons intervention, not more money for food.