We have all seen the documentaries about fast food restaurants on low-income areas and how they cause the residents in the area to become obese. The simple fact that the restaurant is there is very bad for the residents.

Poor men and women are presented with few choices when it comes to eating out. They tend to go for the good deal and for a place that is close by. A one dollar hamburger looks like a great deal at the local fast-food joint but is terrible in its calorie content and awful for your health.

There hasn’t just been one documentary on the subject either. This has become a huge issue in many areas and many people have covered reporting this situation. New York’s Area Council got involved and put into effect new labeling laws that it thought would help to handle this issue.

Even with the new laws things haven’t changed. According to a recent survey New York’s poor people are still victims of a terrible diet in their low-income neighborhoods.

Contradicting this is the metropolis. They (McDonald’s and KFC) seem to think that men and women are ordering food with less fat and calories. How could this be when an independent shows otherwise? It just doesn’t seem right.

One thing that could be setting the figures off is the fact that chains like Subway have much healthier low cost foods and the chains with the unhealthy foods like McDonald and KFC are using the healthy reports in their equation. This will definitely throw the numbers off for an accurate report.

These studies are in reality false and almost like cheating on the part of the metropolis. They are taking the figures from the wealthier neighborhoods and grouping them in with those from the poorer neighborhoods in order to make the numbers look better.

In the end the City’s report doesn’t hold any water at all. It’s worthless. The reality is that poor people are still making bad food choices.

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