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"Lictor" wrote in message
... "JMA" wrote in message ... There are a lot of places in the US that aren't urban and where access to certain food items is limited at best. My point really is that some people don't seem to realize that a lot of these more "exotic" (for lack of a better term) foods are limited by *economics* not necessarily ignorance or a lack of desire to expand ones horizons. Someone else brought the point of "exotic" food, not me. The point remain that even in these remote places, the choice of food ranges quite a bit beyond potato chips and the like. There is a rural food tradition in the USA, yet most people do not even go that far in their eating habits. A growing part of the population seems to have banned vegetables and the like from their diet. Or even non-industrial food. It's not only a problem in the USA btw, we did have some kids who thought real fish is supposed to be square too. Proportionally there are still way more people at the lower end of the economic scale than at the other end in the US. Maybe some of the large amount of money that is injected into funding important studies like "does soda make you fat?" could be used to better the situation of these people. Like giving better access to healthy food to really poor people (getting proximity groceries, funding farmers to come sell their food in the area...). To put down the US culture because most teenagers haven't tasted pheasant, quail, or other foods that are atypical of the stereotypical white, middle class, suburban lifestyle is just narrowminded in itself. I wasn't going that far. Just eating regular meat, whatever kind of fish is available, and a few vegetables a week would already be quite an improvement. Yet, many people claim it's impossible to feed kids and teenagers on anything but French fries and burgers, because they don't *like* any other kind of food. That's just plain wrong. They don't like the other foods because they never tried them and never had their tastes educated. That's a failure of the whole education system. Another area where money would be better spent than on yet another study. btw, how's the teenage alcohol problem in France these days? I was just in Europe and was watching a program on CNN that said it's the worst in France, and that it's much worse in Europe than the US. So, has it improved in the last month? So, maybe some French money can go towards solving that as well. Martha |
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