Last Topic: 5:41:13pm, 05/01/2023
Last Post: 1:29:53pm, 09/28/2022
I do nutrition outreach with lower income, working class people and tbh this is worth trying but probably won't help much. The biggest problem isn't time, money, or accessibility. Those definitely impact it, and I can get into the nuance of why I don't think those matter as much if anyone wants, but in my experience that's all secondary to the plain fact that healthy food isn't as enticing unhealthy food. Not in terms of taste, culture and familiarity, social visibility, or anything else.
Even accounting for affordability and accessibility, we've had people shun cheap, nutritious food all for the simple fact that it's not what they want. They want the high fat, high sugar, high sodium stuff even if it's bad for their health and their budget.
Until we stop the flow of junk food by holding its producers responsible, promoting healthy eating is a losing tactic against obesity. That's a wildly unpopular approach though, so we're effectively doomed.