Eating healthy is not expensive

Cooking is the key issue when differentiating between fats; I personally almost completely avoid using any fat with heat.

If adding heat in order of stability generally speaking its saturated fat, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated.

The marketing of PUFAs as "healthy" oils when they are almost entirely used for cooking is the major issue. If you are going to use a fat for cooking use coconut or beef/animal fat. Butter is more prone to damage especially at high heat.

Almost nobody is pouring rapeseed or any other cheap vegetable oil over their salad/dipping bread into like the way olive oil/butter is used. Personally I consume about 15L of olive oil per year and none of that sees heat.

The public health decision of 50 years ago across the west of demonising saturated fat has lead to a all sorts of issues not least of which is food companies marketing cheap junk as healthy choices to a confused public.

enabling would be common enough in ireland regarding cooking, similar to my own family, im only learning to properly cook now, as i started a cooking lass a few years ago, but even this can be very dysfunctional, with the class regularly defaulting to sh1t food, cooking should be mandatory for all in school

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again, yes, trauma has always existed, but our copying strategies and mechanisms in dealing with it(maladaptively), have changed, and changed substantially, again, previous generations would have largely turned to alcohol and nicotine in dealing with their traumas, but in the modern age, not only do these copying strategies exist, we now have far greater access to substances including drugs(legal and illegal), gambling, sex(including access to porn), and of course highly addictive foods.

a lot of the 'information' that exists in the modern age is in fact miss and dis information, primarily driven by marketing, which is now highly sophisticated, and frankly, a pack of lies, in which its main aim is to manipulate the general population into increasing consumption, and this works extremely well.

again, the abundance of relatively cheap, and extremely unhealthy foods simply did not exist in previous generations, hence why there was less obesity, i.e. obesity has existed for a very long time, with evidence in ancient times, but was far less.

in the modern age, less physically active jobs exist, compared to previous generations, this to is also helping to cause our obesity issues.

the convince and speed of delivered foods, is also adding to obesity, again, a lot of these foods contain highly addictive ingredients

Well I did say "many people don't care", which to me would be "some people".

We probably all know that person who says they're eating healthily now, which could be just nothing but those frozen process meals with health branding and marketing.

The only ones I feel sorry for is the kids whose parents don't care and are happy to load up with the worst diet.

Well the thread's title is "eating healthy is not expensive", which we've all concluded is a fact.

However a lot of posts seem to concentrate on excuses for people choosing to not eat healthily.

The only group I'd absolve from personal responsibility are the children of people who eschew healthy food for more expensive bad diets.

And when those children grow up not knowing how to eat healthily, they presumably slide into your 'no sympathy' category.

You seem incapable of imagining how it's more difficult for other people to do it, even though you've been taught how to do it and they haven't.

One of the first Normans to invade Ireland was nicked named Raymond Le Gros i.e the fat/large. It's safe to assume fat people have been around for a while.

I have never had a dilleveroo or a spice but who knows what we'd be like if we were young today.

Children have to see parent eating normal food, parents not knowing or being interested macros or overly concerned about food in general, normal food cooked from scratch and limit the amount of fling it in the air fryer crispy chicken things. That would be a great start.

And a big one that's apparently creeping in cooking one dinner for the children and parents eating a different dinner at a different time themselves.

While I don't want to add to the fetishing food phononmin.

I found this interesting. I have to pass a Baxter and Green numourous time recently almost everyday, massive queue of builders buying roles so big they would feed two or big pizzas and similar, all are slim and lean, probably due the physical nature of the work.

Are they unhealthy eating that food all the time?