How does the lack of nutrition labels on fast foods and restaurant menus affect the African-American community SPECIFICALLY?
What questions do you have about obesity and African Americans?
Hello. Most fast food restaurants have their nutritional information available on the Web. But the time to look it up, the interest in doing it and the access to a computer would all be issues…
The real question is why don’t more families cook…food expense has a lot to do with it but buying fast food is actually more expensive, even if you buy the Williams 8 piece dark or McDonald’s chicken nuggets all the time….
Another issue is simply knowing how to cook and teaching your children to like cooked food.
Interestingly enough, this is becoming a problem all over the developed world, and not just with Black people. Even Japanese mothers have trouble somtimes keeping their kids away from the fast food….
People need to grow some food and herbs, cook, and eat what they cook….
This would help obesity issues, immensely. Oh and being active and making exercise a PRIORITY, the way Mrs. Obama and my family do…
it doesn’t if ppl (of any race) would get off their lazy azz and exercise !
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Man white people are waayyyy fatter than black people..sorry..did you see those protestors for health care? or even comic con..JEEZ!
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Sarah Palin
Kelly Clarkson
Jessica Simpson
mmooooooooo…
What does fast food have to do with AA communities?
Well anyways I usually don’t eat fast foods so idk.
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I don’t think it has any significant effect. African-Americans make up a large percent of the poor population in this county so therefor they eat at McDonald and other cheap fast food restaurants more often. If they had easy access to the nutrition menu I don’t think it would change anything, they know the food is bad but they have to eat something.
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i have a question
i wanna know why mcdonalds, one of the most unhealthiest fast food chains on the market, directs so much advertising at african americans? c’mon 365 days black? since when? kind of offensive as well. I mean, what makes them "black", a few commercials with hip-hoppish beats and stuff like that? this only contributes to obesity and disease in the african american community, i’m done ranting now.
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is it slap a black person day today?
(from begind the comfort of your computer)
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Hello. Most fast food restaurants have their nutritional information available on the Web. But the time to look it up, the interest in doing it and the access to a computer would all be issues…
The real question is why don’t more families cook…food expense has a lot to do with it but buying fast food is actually more expensive, even if you buy the Williams 8 piece dark or McDonald’s chicken nuggets all the time….
Another issue is simply knowing how to cook and teaching your children to like cooked food.
Interestingly enough, this is becoming a problem all over the developed world, and not just with Black people. Even Japanese mothers have trouble somtimes keeping their kids away from the fast food….
People need to grow some food and herbs, cook, and eat what they cook….
This would help obesity issues, immensely. Oh and being active and making exercise a PRIORITY, the way Mrs. Obama and my family do…
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what does race have to do with it every race has there fat ppl and there’s more fast food stops in white communities then there is black,well that’s how it is in las vegas
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girl…. look at yourself in the mirror and repeat after me..
" Why do I ask SO MANY BLACK ORIENTED QUESTIONS so frequently?"
really?
What’s your problem?
When you figure out the answer… please, keep it to yourself….
Moving On To The NEXT QUESTION>>>
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I’m african american just to get that out here so what i say doesn’t sound rude/funny or anything its not supposed to be.
I don’t think its a lack of nutrition labels. I think its a lack of resources in the black community. some people who are not in the "know" do not know what the label means if it was on a food item.
I get so upset…in more urban areas…there are absolutely no resources on anything. Liquor stores, fried chicken places, and Hair/stores that aren’t even owned by people that know the products the best….all of these marketing structures are there and being made rich
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