Why only a small percentage of people today are buying more nutritious foods?!
Why only a small percentage of people today are buying more nutritious foods?
Answers:
-Eating healthy is not a priority.
-People care more about convenience than quality.
-We grew up in 2-income families eating processed convenience foods and never learned to cook.
-Economies of scale made unhealthy processed food cheaper than fresh foods.
And that's just the short list.
Now we are the first generation with a life expectancy SHORTER than the generation before us.
I know this might sound preachy, but I'm living it every day. I have Crohn's disease which was triggered by all the crap I ate as a kid.
Because they cost more and don't taste as good. Even if they do theoretically taste as good, they don't taste the same, and people like what tastes the same.
Misinformation, don't know/want to know enough, don't care. I try to be healthy but it's very hard when you work in a pizzeria...