You really don't have to be wealthy to eat well, though. Americans just don't know how to eat cheap and healthy.

True. It's all about convenience. Personally, I'd rather eat something made by someone else or only takes 15 minutes to make. I find absolutely no joy in going shopping, preparing and eating a meal (unless it involves a grill).

In my mixed to affluent neighborhood I have six or seven places where i can walk to get affordable fresh vegetables. In the really bad neighborhoods there are no supermarkets and no farmers markets. You have to take public transportation to get fruit and vegetables.

Or you could just log in to Obner.

i saw some program on the travel channel the other night where they were cooking up squirrel in appalachia. i mean, the end product looked good (sweet & sour potstickers, etc) but it was still squirrel.

That some sammich. Love the handy paper towel roll.

I have had two different grocery store cashiers tell me people on govt aid buy the unhealthiest stuff in the store. So even when they're in the store and someone else is picking up the tab people can still find a way to F it up.

When the grocery store on Nob Hill in SF closes in a year or two (which has been a local story) I just know the South East Asia families and gentrification crowd won't skip a beat and will find a way to get produce and healthy food, but the poorer residents in Tenderloin will get shut out and have nobody to blame but themselves.

Have you ever actually eaten squirrel, shiv. If cooked right, it's really good. Squirrel w/ rice and gravy is one of my favorite meals that I haven't had the opportunity to actually have in years. Now possum.......?

As for the walking thing in rural areas, the only productive, non-exercising walk I can take is to my mailbox.

now i'm even more disgusted by you.

portland is a big biking/exercise/healthy eating city, but once you get out of the inner city and into the suburbs, the number of really obese people, especially kids, is frightening. the people out there have just as much money or more than those in the city so its a lot more than just wealth. the suburbs are filled with nothing but big supermarkets and chain restaurants and really nothing to force people out of their cars. sure out there you can walk, but there is nothing to walk to. near me there are a lot of cool things that you can walk to in a mile or less other than just more housing developments.