Concerns Regarding Obesity And Diabetes Amongst Our Ethnic Minority Population.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2830254/Obesity-higher-fast-food-areas.html

/// "We found a much higher number of fast-food outlets in more deprived areas where a higher number of black and minority ethnic populations resided. This in turn was associated with higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes." ///

Nobody showed such concerns when we once had a chip shop on every street corner.

[Peter Pedant]

AOG your non sequitur to Piper H
"are you suggesting they have a meal in each and every outlet"
is howling like a dog tied to a radiator

//Nobody showed such concerns when we once had a chip shop on every street corner. //

public health has a long history - starting with banning cellar living in the Public Health Act of 1874. Low quality food has been a national concern for about 1000 y. - first regulations on the quality of bread around 1050

[New Judge]

No, Kromo, you're being facetious. It's by no means case closed, it's the starting point for discovery. It was an example. In the same way that I don't expect people to live solely on meals made from the ingredients I have described I don't expect to have to list everything available. It is perfectly possible to eat healthy food that does not break the bank.

Whenever this issue is raised immediately the cry comes that less well off people cannot source suitable ingredients. It's absolute nonsense as my example - just an example, mind - clearly demonstrates. I accept that it needs a bit of application, a bit of thought and a bit of effort. Life's a bit tough sometimes and feeding ones self and family often gets in the way of far more important things.

It's also evident that many people who plead poverty do not prioritise their spending properly. Most people seen gorging fast food usually have a "Smart Phone" either clamped to their ear or in their hand whilst they mess about with texts and social media. It is fairly likely that some of them are among the "poor" being discussed here. The monthly payment alone for these phones would buy the ingredients for a few healthy meals.

There is no need for people with limited funds to pay somebody else to cook their dinners for them - especially when those dinners have ingredients so foul that they cause them long term health problems.

[anotheoldgit]

The concerns are targeted at ethic minorities, which hardly anyone has addressed for some strange reason.

What is the prime connection between ethnic minorities and the concerns shown regarding obesity and diabetes?

Is it because they mainly live in deprived areas, where all the fast food outlets are?

Do the gorge themselves on fast food?

Why aren't the same concerns shown towards the indigenous population? After all it has been said that it is them who are attracted to these outlets.

So you would think that it is not a particular ethnic minority problem.

[Old_Geezer]

So, high density of convenient take-away outlets correspond to local obesity problems. One of those investigations into the bleeding obvious maybe ?

If one HAS to make the effort to provide meals or go without, then one tends to do so more often. But when (especially is after a gruelling day at work) one returns home and realises one has the option to get someone else to do the food preparation/cooking, one tends to indulge more than is ideal for one's health.

[pastafreak]

I'd think the 'indigenous population' has indulged in such food for a longer period of time,whereas those who are more recent immigrants,or are mixing more with the 'natives', are now picking up more local dietary habits. Diabetes and obesity are also becoming much more common in the native lands of many immigrants...due to the proliferation of Mcd's,Burger king and Kentucky Fried....
Our "indigenous" folk have been studied many times...it's the immigrants turn now.

[New Judge]

I think the link, AOG, is not one of ethnicity (at least not a causal link). I think that areas with a high concentration of ethnic minority people tend to be poorer areas. Poorer people (for some inexplicable reason) tend to eat a high proportion of fast food. So outlets for that food tend to thrive in poorer areas.