http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/five-ways-hunger-affects-the-latino-community/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/five-ways-hunger-affects-the-latino-community/#comment-1200 healthwarrier Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:15:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=7356#comment-1200 Liberationtheology, it is a myth that hungry people are necessarily skinny.  There is a large body of evidence showing that obesity and carb consumption are linked.  And it is also well known that not only do carbs (bread, grains, corn, potatoes) cause weight gain -- they are cheap, subsidized by our government and promoted as food for poor people.  So do not blame a financially struggling person for feeding him or herself the most affordable food possible.  Our government policy needs to change.  Not only does high consumption of carbs make people fat and diabetic, but it makes people hungry.  Carbs do not satisfy hunger.  Fat does.  If people get their minds woken up, then they might realize this: eat more eggs, meat, fish and vegetables, and give up the grains.  Then you will be healthier, lose weight, stop being diabetic, etc.  Yes, we have been misinformed about this, but we also owe it to ourselves to inform ourselves of the truth, so that we can actually end hunger. Liberationtheology, it is a myth that hungry people are necessarily skinny.  There is a large body of evidence showing that obesity and carb consumption are linked.  And it is also well known that not only do carbs (bread, grains, corn, potatoes) cause weight gain — they are cheap, subsidized by our government and promoted as food for poor people.  So do not blame a financially struggling person for feeding him or herself the most affordable food possible.  Our government policy needs to change.  Not only does high consumption of carbs make people fat and diabetic, but it makes people hungry.  Carbs do not satisfy hunger.  Fat does.  If people get their minds woken up, then they might realize this: eat more eggs, meat, fish and vegetables, and give up the grains.  Then you will be healthier, lose weight, stop being diabetic, etc.  Yes, we have been misinformed about this, but we also owe it to ourselves to inform ourselves of the truth, so that we can actually end hunger.

]]> http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/five-ways-hunger-affects-the-latino-community/#comment-615 Liberationtheology Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:13:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=7356#comment-615 The woman in the photo is fat.  Might help your cause if you had a skinny person there gazing at the food. The woman in the photo is fat.  Might help your cause if you had a skinny person there gazing at the food.

]]> http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/five-ways-hunger-affects-the-latino-community/#comment-608 Luisramos21237 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:01:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=7356#comment-608 La Raza doesn't represent The Race if it wants to double the number of Latino food stamp recipients, they sound more like the White Liberals that have decimated the African American population the last 45 years.   La Raza doesn’t represent The Race if it wants to double the number of Latino food stamp recipients, they sound more like the White Liberals that have decimated the African American population the last 45 years.  

]]> http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/five-ways-hunger-affects-the-latino-community/#comment-607 Luisramos21237 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:50:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=7356#comment-607 "Almost half of all eligible Latinos do not receive food stamps" because we  don't sit on our @sses waiting on government handouts!  “Almost half of all eligible Latinos do not receive food stamps” because we  don’t sit on our @sses waiting on government handouts! 

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