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| Do Parasites Make You Dumber? |
| 2010-07-02 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #7 mom your #1 is total hogwash. when i lost my job several years back, we became eligible for and received food stamps for 90 days. those stamps which were the minimum award feed our family for over 5 months. it did not supplement our food budget, it 100% bought all of our food for a 5 month period. the poor in the US are not malnourished because of a lack of funds. food stamps are in excess of %150 of my family's food budget and that does not include the free-bees that most of our 'poor' get in the WIC program. you #2 can be shortened to 'many of the urban poor do not know how to plan' but that has little to do with nutrition. wrap it up as "the urban poor have no need to learn the life skills that the rest of us depend on and will never be forced to, so will remain unable to be bothered with buying food based on value instead of ease of use." |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-07-02 15:10 |
| #6 Poor sanitation and poor nutrition go together in stunting physical and mental growth. Rewarding excellence in education leads to better sanitation and better nutrition, which partly explains Oscar's statement about India's progress. The areas shown in red on the map have little or no decent infrastructure, including schools. Local religions and practices determine whether the local education and infrastructure are worth anything. Of all the evils in the world, the tribalism of Africa and militant Islam create the worst physical, mental, and spiritual sinkholes in the world. These belief systems are fatalistic and do not reward effort, excellence, experimentation, and exploration. perhaps a smaller sample size needed BP , perhaps try Detroit Urban poor don't get adequate nutrition because: 1. lack of funds; 2: many of the urban poor don't know how to plan meals or how to shop for good quality food; 3 Inferior schools (you've heard me rant on this subject before) don't teach students how to read anything, including food labels. 4: Incompetent role models create worse poverty, dirtier environment. |
| Posted by: mom 2010-07-02 14:35 |
| #5 BP, no diff. Same underlying principle (parasitism), different means and niches. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2010-07-02 07:02 |
| #4 Chicken-egg dilemma, BP. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-07-02 06:03 |
| #3 perhaps a smaller sample size needed BP , perhaps try Detroit ? |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-07-02 06:03 |
| #2 Does welfare state parasites and big business rent seekers have the same effect on society? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-07-02 05:52 |
| #1 Area , education , clean water , stable societies , religion , parenting are some of the myriad of other factors that need to be taken in to account . I think India would be a good case model to look at . 30 years ago it was in the same state as a lot of Africa . |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-07-02 05:14 |