Why do poor Americans eat so unhealthfully? (2018)

Growing up as a kid who ate a lot of junk food, I think there's just more commonly a culture among less affluent folks to prioritize rewards now instead of rewards later.

Eat, drink, be merry today - you may not have the opportunity tomorrow.

Treating yourself or your kids now is the good life for a lot of people - of course, at the expense of tomorrow, but that's not too much of a concern.

So, a difference in priorities and perspectives among rich vs poor. Like the articles states, but a different view of it.

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We ate raisin bran every single morning almost without fail, although there were a few frosted flakes mixed in mixed in the selection of cereals I guess for competitive incentive.

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This seems like a very small and data poor study to draw such a broad claim.

Unhealthy food tends to also be cheap and easy to prepare. Healthier options typically entail either more involved preparation or are more expensive. "Healthy" is also poorly defined, and when you're working crazy hours and living paycheck-to-paycheck, spending hours at a grocery store poring over nutrition facts doesn't tend to rank high in priority.

I know this isn't the cause, but it becoming a privilege to not face gauntlets of sugary garbage on the way to cashiers isn't helping.

The higher-end stores like Whole Foods, New Leaf, hell even Trader Joes, treat their customers with enough respect to not immerse them in trash while waiting in a slow-moving line at deliberately understaffed cashier lanes.

You can't even buy something from AutoZone without being surrounded by a Fry's-style maze of diabetes anymore. Late-stage capitalism is absolutely awful, there's zero built-in concern for society's wellness. We'll have strip-malls filled with dialysis centers and these businesses still won't stop peddling fructose to the masses. Race to the bottom indeed.