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Are you serious? When gauging the cost of food, look at calories per dollar. Buying raw pasta will net you ~2000-4000 Calories per dollar so roughly a dollar for most of your days calorie intake and after that just add a bit of meat and vegetables and you are set with ~3 dollars a day. Also note when they say calorie dense they must include things like beans, potatoes, bread, nuts etc. By skipping all of those you would have to get your daily intake of calories from things like tomatoes or lettuce and that would get extremely expensive.leroyjenkens said:And what are some examples of these cheap high calorie foods? Because the vegetables I make my salads out of and the fruit I eat is pretty cheap. Same with my cans of beans.
Calories is the most important of the nutrients you eat, without it you die. So you got to get up to that calorie intake each day, that is highest priority, things like vegetables are just not cost efficient to do that.
Um, measuring underweight using BMI is just as faulty as measuring obesity with it. If you are lean the most healthy place to be on that scale is roughly around "borderline underweight". The numbers where it starts to matter is around ~12-14 BMI, putting underweight that high is just to scare people and allows people to call all models underweight anorectic cases even though they are really not at all. I guess that you could find some cases which are really underweight at 18 though but it must be very rare.Count Iblis said:My BMI is 22 now. When I was younger, I was borderline underweight (BMI of 18.1).
As for this discussion, I think that the best way to fight it is to stop being so dandy with the issues. World smoking and such have dropped like a rock after all the campaigns, why not do the same thing for obesity? Well, I think the main issue is that people are like "Oh no, that can't be done! That would make all obese people feel bad about themselves!". But I don't really get that, why not show the kids how gross people can get who are not tending themselves? You need pictures and stories, not diagrams and health advice like we currently have since most people don't understand those things. Force the stores to mark up unhealthy food with skulls or something like that.
Maybe not all of that but something in that direction would help.
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