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Originally Posted by SamIam
I can understand that malnutrition might be a concern for those living in poverty without food stamps, but WITH food stamps? WTF?
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Malnutrition and obesity are synonymous - not antonyms. Yes, you were addressing the problem with junk food. Because junk food is so much cheaper, many buy that. Then, because the food has so little nutrition, the body gets hungry quickly. So they need more junk food.
Learned this from wrestling. Diets that restrict food do not work. How did we cut 20% of our body weight? Limit the diet only to nutritious foods.
Appreciate the concept. A large carrot is nutritious - 100% of the required vitamin A. Is that second carrot nutritious? No. Of course not. The first carrot provided all of today's vitamin A requirements. A second carrot was only sugar - junk food. A concept that so many do not understand when only using sound byte reasoning.
Using the same soundbyte reasoning, many do not understand how obesity and malnutrition share a common origin. The food being consumed has too little nutrition per calorie.