Comments by "Johanna S. L. Brushane" (@johannas.l.brushane2518) on "‘This is an emergency’ - Chris van Tulleken on how our diet is killing us" video.

  1. ​​ @capablanc  I am a bit reluctant to accept the economic explanation. If you take a bag of the cheapest chicken nuggets from the freezer in your supermarket and compare it to plain chicken tat mostly been parted in different part the bag of "whole" chicken will be more costly. But the chicken nugget will likely have a miniscule cube of chicken and then covered in thick layers of fried breading, made of grains that are often artificial cheap since the production of them are subsided by governments. The "mostly breading with a little bit of chicken" would need you to eat more plus you will be hungry again earlier. But yes, I was a bit puzzled as an exchange student in UK over 20 years ago that processed food was so relatively cheap compared to how it is in my home country Sweden, but still as a foreign student in a country with a then very high value of the £ I could still eat mostly whole foods from minced beef in various forms, grilled trout and such with a great variation of fresh and frozen vegs. People with low income should reasonably be more concerned of being healthy, not depending on lifelong medication from early age, especially in these times where the population structure will have us to push retirement age further so we will work longer and our pensions may have lower purchasing power than the boomers had when they retired around age of 65. "Being healthy is more costly" is not true in the longer perspective.
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  2. Wasn't it Pringles who had the marketing slogan "Once you stup you can't stop" already decades ago?
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  3. ​ @Ariella-u9v You may be on to something, it sometimes seem as if a consumerism influenced anxious middleclasd mindset perceive ready made a treat and maybe even misinterpreted "luxury" without really looking at the nutrition and satiating worth? A lot of the "Fat acceptance" influencers are even so-called trust fund kids coming from upper middle class background at minimum while using the excuse of "poverty" as mitigator to be overall tolerant of obesity. Kind of a similar thing in the 70s when extreme leftist like Baader Meinhof and such movements wanted revolution by violent means. The leaders in these groups were not working or lower class at all (the groups who typically would not have anything to gain at all from such revolutions). So it's good to reflect on who says what and think about why they might be saying it.
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