Do you have money and a concern for your health?
Are you broke and hungry?
These questions are the foundation for the statement "You are where you eat".
A study of 2,001 shoppers showed that 4% of shoppers who filled their carts up at Whole foods were obese. 40% of shoppers at lower priced grocery stores were obese.
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Article at MSNBC:
.....people willing to pay $6 for a pound of radicchio are more able to afford healthy diets than people stocking up on $1.88 packs of pizza rolls to feed their kids, the study’s lead author suggested.
"If people wanted a diet to be cheap, they went to one supermarket," said Adam Drewnowski, a University of Washington epidemiology professor who studies obesity and social class. "If they wanted their diet to be healthy, they went to another supermarket and spent more."
....because healthy, low-calorie foods cost more money and take more effort to prepare than processed, high-calorie foods. In a separate study two years ago, Drewnowski estimated that a calorie-dense diet cost $3.52 a day compared with $36.32 a day for a low-calorie diet.
Attention Walmart shoppers: Shop somewhere else if you want to be healthy.
Clean Up on aisle America.
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