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"It's not even remotely difficult to eat well."

So long as you have the money, time and skill to shop for healthy foods and prepare them well. If you don't have the money, if you live in a place where the availability of produce is poor, and if you don't know how to cook, that's a serious handicap to eating well.

"It's also not that difficult to maintain a healthy weight, provided you ~GET OFF YOUR ASS~*"

I'll be sure to inform my MIL, who has knee problems that limit her physical mobility.

You're right, I did forget to mention physical limitations as well as metabolic ones.

But she knows there are all kinds of activities you can do with a bad knee, right? You can get tremendously fit if you don't even have knees. There are many, many intense upper-body-only exercises that don't require any walking or movement or pressure on her knee at all. It would be shitty if she thought she couldn't exercise just because of that.

I always see that argument about accessibility and while yeah, I get that it's a social, mostly urban problem, that families have, over generations, not known or forgotten how to deal with food. whole communities are very estranged from food as a whole and their whole food culture consists of junkfood. in these places there should be an effort to help people get ot of the vicious circle of poverty, social destitution and unhealthy lifestyle.

ON THE OTHER HAND the people pulling the social card on this as an excuse why they can't eat healthily are usually anything but uninformed and destitute. they have access to information via the internet, they can read and write properly, and they often live in urban areas with a wide variety of stores for a wide variety of lifestyles. yes, they may be poor, students, unemployed, but so am I. I'm below my country's poverty line, and I've also been jobbing so I didn't have much time to prepare food. Still I managed to at least cook the pasta sauce from fresh ingredients and eat a salad I washed and seasoned with oil and vinegar. In the end it was simply much cheaper than getting a kebap or burger on lunch break. I also bake my own bread because it's just as much as the cheapest bred I can buy at the supermarket, only mine's whole grain organic without additives and theirs is basically starch cardboard so mine's more nutritious. takes less than half an hour to make.

Okay baking bread is non-trivial. It is absolutely, absolutely not something that anyone can do. I've tried several times and I have just not been at all successful in making bread that's really enjoyable to eat. I'm very in favor of cooking, but, like, there is absolutely a scale of difficulty to learning to cook different items. This is not just automatically accessible to the point where all you have to do is decide to do it

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Um, while yeast breads do have a learning curve, many soda breads and baking powder biscuits and scones are pretty straight forward. Here's an easy recipe:

Easy Drop Biscuits
Makes 6 biscuits

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup whole milk

Directions
Heat oven to 400° F. In a food processor, combine the flour, butter, baking powder, and salt; pulse until pea-size clumps form. Add the milk and pulse just until moistened.

Drop 6 large mounds of the dough (about ½ cup each) onto a baking sheet. Bake until golden, 18 to 20 minutes.

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I left my house before 8am. I got home after 10pm. I have gone through many stretches where I have one day off in three months. (My first day off after New Years this year was April 2nd.) I'm going to be buying that "starch cardboard" instead of baking bread. And buying jarred sauce (or even *gasp* using butter and some spices) instead of making my own. And as someone whose nearest grocery store is over 2 miles away (and who even when she takes the bus has to walk about 3/4 of a mile), it really isn't that easy to pick up a lot of vegetables for salads when I don't have access to a car. Not that salad vegetables are cheap where I live. (Unless I just want iceberg lettuce which defeats the purpose of eating healthy.)

Despite the fact I am well educated and know how to cook, I still would say that I don't have the time or money or energy to do so. There are many steps between being able to make/cook something fresh and healthy and buying a burger on a lunch break. I can't afford either generally.

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