{"id":262,"date":"2018-04-14T07:04:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T07:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=262"},"modified":"2018-04-14T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T07:04:15","slug":"telling-me-to-eat-heathy-is-great-now-how-do-i-afford-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/14\/telling-me-to-eat-heathy-is-great-now-how-do-i-afford-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Me To Eat Heathy is Great. Now How Do I Afford It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Julie Guthman\u2019s article The Food Police<\/em>, Guthman critiques Michael Pollan and other nutritionists for establishing a discourse that fat shames obese people and blames obese people for being obese. Indeed, Pollan does not recognize the complexity of the obesity epidemic. Many people would love to eat natural produce, but do not have the finances to achieve this. However, Guthman states that, \u201c\u2026entirely absent from the pages of the recent popular books is any authorial reflection on how obesity talk further stigmatizes those who are fat\u2026\u201d (Guthman 2008). Although Guthman is correct in pointing out that body confidence can be lowered when discussing obesity since it potentially glamorizes being thin, obesity is a life-threatening disease. Society cannot simply ignore obesity because it might offend obese people. Instead, it is important to give agency and voice to those who are obese to find financially accessible concrete solutions for this health epidemic.<\/p>\n

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Much progress was made when people could use SNAP at Farmers Markets; however, much more must be done at granting greater access to healthy foods. There will never be a financially accessible alternative to the fast food if there is no economically viable business that is willing to challenge the idea that fresh food needs to be expensive. When looking for fast food chains in King County most stores are based on the outskirts of Seattle. Not only is property cheaper in these location, but the average household income is also lower. To curb this, more \u201cfast food\u201d chains need to be established that cook fresh locally sourced produce at cheap prices. One possible way to incentivize more companies to serve cheap fresh food is to subsidize these businesses who meet select criteria, and can compete with fast food chains.<\/p>\n

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In Julie Guthman\u2019s article The Food Police, Guthman critiques Michael Pollan and other nutritionists for establishing a discourse that fat shames obese people and blames obese people for being obese. Indeed, Pollan does not recognize the complexity of the obesity epidemic. Many people would love to eat natural produce, but do not have the finances to achieve this. However, Guthman… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}