Healthy eating low incomes

[Jeff]

There are super markets in poor neighborhoods. Tops on the west side (niagara st), and tops on the east side (broadway). Why don't they shop there for their groceries? That seems pretty available to me...

Pure laziness.

Well, maybe thats the problem. I'm not limiting my scope to WNY.

[WNYresident]

Well, maybe thats the problem. I'm not limiting my scope to WNY.

You don't live in WNY?

[FisherRd]

Well, maybe thats the problem. I'm not limiting my scope to WNY.

Oh.
So there aren't supermarkets in poor neighborhoods elsewhere? I imagine we're talking rural areas then. They have farmland.

I get the feeling you want excuses for poor eating habits instead of addressing the lazy, lack of parental care, etc

The "poor" find ways to get cell phones, cars, rims, smokes, etc but not supermarkets. Heck, we even give the, the money for groceries. Should we shop and cook for them too?

[Jeff]

You don't live in WNY?

I do, but I'm not limiting my scope to WNY.

[WNYresident]

I do, but I'm not limiting my scope to WNY.

You should. What effects most of us is what is happening in Erie County/WNY.

[buffy]

http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2011/nov/10_0231.htm
http://voices.yahoo.com/lower-income...d-2800511.html

I remember that the Buffalo News did a story on this AGES ago. One reason given for the decreased number of grocery stores in "lower-income" neighborhoods was crime. Specifically cited was the former Central Park Plaza area that used to have three, count 'em, 3 grocery stores! Shop lifting was a big problem and people were getting mugged in the parking lot. The shop owners were very reluctant to invest in a bad neighborhood - who could blame them?

My Mom used to walk to the Central Park Plaza with her pull cart for groceries. It's ironic that so many Americans are on food stamps and we have an obesity epidemic. More people need to walk, including kids walking to and from school.

Regardless, there are grocery stores on bus lines everywhere.

[FisherRd]

Buff,
Spot on.

[WNYresident]

Look who owns the small shops now. Foreigners. WHICH isn't a bad thing. The bad thing is that we give foreigners money to start up these businesses.

[Save Us]

Strange how poor people seem to eat without Mickey D's in foreign countries.

Fast food is addicting, and requires little calorie expenditure per calorie gained. Look around, most Americans in general throw caloric balance to wind anyway!

[WNYresident]

Remember we have Rights. Other people really don't have the power to tell other people how they should eat or raise their children. But I think that changes when money/property is taken away from one person to be handed to another.