Reply #53: It's more about dollars per calorie. And stores available in the poorest

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neighborhoods. And how much cooking you can do when you're working two jobs.

We subsidize mega-agriculture in fast food ingredients far more than we support other fruit and vegetables.

We also don't seem willing to address the thousands of enticing snack ads we see every day on our televisions. We are not allowed to advertise cigarettes on TV but we see lots of hamburgers, pizza, and other snacks. If TV commercials don't effect public health, why not advertise cigarettes as freely as we do the thousands of products of the billion-dollar diabetes-making snack food industry?

I've even seen sincere discussion about the problems of obesity interrupted by luscious yummy food ads. The guests all discuss the sad state of our lack of control over snacking and then we cut to a happy commercial about yummy quick food. But we don't mention the thousands of pro-snacking ads we see on TV.