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I have a pet theory that the main cause of obesity among working class people is that some starches, like flour, corn, rice, and oats, are inexpensive. Fried with oil, some of these taste really, really good. Like, unbelievably good, so that we’d pay as much for a sack of fried starches as we’d pay for a decent steak.
Yet, the raw ingredients, starch and oil, are relatively cheap. Water and salt are nearly free.
So, starting with flour, water, salt, and oil, the application of labor can turn flour, which costs $1 a pound retail, and a pound of veggies, which is $2 retail, into, tempura, which is $15 a plate. The sides are rice, which is 50 cents, and that dipping sauce, which costs < 25 cents.
Starches fried up are a short path to profits and business success.
So, while most working class people aren’t eating that meal, they can make something similar at home, for $3 a meal. I used to get the $1/lb (now $1.50/lb) chicken or pork at Food4Less and batter or bread it, and fry it up. I’d make fried veggies the same way. It was tempura with a less fancy name, like fried chicken or pork chops, but basically the same thing. Mine tasted better than some restaurants.
The contribution to obesity comes from the fact that starches are so cheap, high in calories, lacking in vitamins and minerals (they are literally almost all starch), and can add a huge amount of perceived value to food. Combined with fat, starches also become filling, but, oils add even more calories.
(This is anecdotal evidence, from someone who knows how to fry and bake, how to count macronutrients, has gotten type 2 diabetes, has controlled it, and lost control of it, and is on the rollercoaster. I’m also overweight, and sometimes obese, and have been morbidly obese.)
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I think it is also purposely addictive. I don’t think people are craving and overeating this food, owing to some prewired thing. I feel in the US how this trick you into credit debt they play the same kinds of games with food.
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