Do you think the high cost of heating our homes is a way to reduce Obesity in America?

March 19th, 2007 | by Michael |
heating cost
tarrat_616 asked:




NIGEL

  1. 4 Responses to “Do you think the high cost of heating our homes is a way to reduce Obesity in America?”

  2. By geessewereabove on Mar 21, 2007 | Reply

    No because starchy foods are the least exspensive and have the least nutrition, so the ones low on money eat more starchy foods, that will make them fatter……….

  3. By Namoosa~ on Mar 23, 2007 | Reply

    No, I can live without heat- even in the winter. Plenty of blankets and thick clothes and I’m good to go. You forgot, us obese people have extra flubber to keep us warm, so we can ditch the heat and choose the food :)

  4. By Sustagurl2 on Mar 24, 2007 | Reply

    Can you be anymore nicer?

  5. By Kate Q on Mar 27, 2007 | Reply

    Nazi much?

    Ignoring that this is a question that should be ignored. Geese is dead on. The poorer you are, the heavier you are - and part of it is that healthy foods are expensive. Not just because they cost more (which they do -way), but because they spoil more quickly and don’t store well - so their per calorie cost is really high.

    Try going to the grocery store with too little money and see what you buy - the first things you have to cross off your list are fruits and vegetables and other fresh foods The next thing is the diet foods. The cheapest stuff are easily the high calorie (full fat, full sugar) versions of processed foods.

    Other things that make obesity worse: stress, overwork, living in poor areas, poor sleeping, not having enough free time to get enough exercise and relax.

    So the more you pile on the stress on the poor (as if being poor weren’t enough), the more unhealthy they become and the harder it is for them to maintain a healthy weight.

    Lastly - periods of starvation do not make people thinner over the long run. Typically they teach the body to conserve energy and weight cyclers who starve themselves off and on usually end up as heavy or heavier than people who don’t.

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