LAST EDITED ON 08-12-06 AT 10:10 AM (EST)

>LAST EDITED ON 08-08-06
>AT 07:40 PM (EST)
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>And, all kinds of junk, sodas,
>candy, cookies, even decorated cakes
>can be bought with food
>stamps. Winn Dixie even had
>a sign on their cake
>counter telling customers so. So
>many people buy stuff already
>prepared. Or, expensive cuts of
>meat.
>Dr Phil, on one of his
>shows, exploded the fallacy that
>healthy food costs more. His
>guest had been feeding her
>daughter almost nothing but fast
>food. Claiming it was cheaper.
>And, she'd ballooned to at
>leasat 200 pounds.

That's exactly true--it's a myth and a cop out that many poor (especially minorities) use as an excuse for being overweight.

There's a fast food burger joint a few blocks away from where I work and like clockwork at around 3PM, there are dozens of kids in there eating fries, shakes and burgers (an early dinner) and when they're done hanging out there they ride their bikes back to the "projects" where they live. Clearly these families have enough money to give these kids the cash for fattening, unhealthy junk food yet they are the first to cry poverty and whine that they can't afford healthy food and that's why they're fat. Ignorance and laziness is more like it.