Having some measure of a social net may be beneficial to those who are destitute and genuinely need help. However, this article about a British woman who thinks government should give her a British Pound per pound of weight lost, and that 32,000 in yearly benefits isnt enough to eat healthy, is pretty insulting. The article shows her with one full cabinet of junk, prepackaged, processed foods. It does not explain, however, that food with low nutrition is needed in greater quantities than nutrient dense food. The article does not show the contents of her fridge, but guaranteed its full of low nutrition, sugar-packed, processed, fatty junk foods. If you are 350 lbs, of course you are going to have trouble imagining a healthy, properly portioned diet, and your brain is most likely wired to crave sugar, salt and fat in unhealthy amounts. This is why the misconception that a healthy diet is too expensive is a lie; a healthy diet doesnt come from branded corporate packages or in artificially large portions that are grossly overpriced. If we would analyze our true needs and wants, we would see that (first and foremost:) clean water, beans/lentils, rice, (fresh/frozen)fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, healthy (real) bread and occasional grass-fed meat are affordable. This misconception that food is not edible unless its artificially colored, artificially sweetened, artificially processed, is a misconception. This misconception that you need soda, coffee, sugar, cookies, poptarts, individually bagged chips, etc; before you need your daily servings of vegetables and protein, is an expensive misconception. When planning the survival of your family, or a general community, it will behoove us to have fresh WATER* first (*not soda, packaged juices, gatorade or kool-aid), fresh vegetables and non-corporate sources of meat and plant proteins. We, however, will not need branded, packaged, overpriced sources of food packed full of sugar and chemically processed ingredients that make corporations rich. Maybe this woman should use her subsidy to grow a garden and raise chickens rather than buy more food from the supermarket. It would give her more than a healthy daily workout, but a sustainable lifestyle. Just my humble opinion, but this is the problem with the nanny state in America today, too. Maybe if people are having trouble keeping a healthy weight and surviving financially, its time to analyze the systems of agriculture and welfare in this country and the world. Big AG seems to prop up Big Pharma which all support the Big Banks and more governmental intervention into the lives and transactions of humans. What are you doing today to support your health and self-sustainability? CPL
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:22:37 +0000
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