That's been known for awhile. Highly processed foods tend to be cheaper per calorie because they utilize a large portion of filler items like modified corn starch. Those corn and soy crops are both A) cheap and B) subsidized heavily. So the tertiary products like high fructose corn syrup, modified corn starch, etc. get sold to big agribusiness processors cheap and make its way into the cheapest mass produced foods. Those foods are more convenient and inexpensive than a lot of whole foods. People at the lowest economic ladders have a tendency, as a result, to have those items as a greater proportion of their diet. Thus poverty is highly associated with diseases related to low food quality like obesity, type II diabetes, etc.
Judah On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/11/unintended-consequences.html > > -Cameron > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
