Reading fail on my part, sorry. The website looks as old as the 12 year old 4 state energy survey! :)
Providing reduced cost refrigerators and stoves doesn't seem like an effective way to get people to eat healthier having home ec classes, or maybe just cooking classes, might be. This doesn't follow logically. I'm going to generalize because the only reduced cost refrigerators are at places like Habitat Re-Store and were never provided to my knowledge by government. But at minimum, having access to refrigeration and an oven/stove seem to me to be a quite necessary prerequisite to eating healthy in most areas of the country. So no, cooking classes ain't gonna cut it.
It's not like poor people are stupid and just need to be taught right. It's more the practical reality of being poor in America often precludes the possibility of acting right(right being healthy, life-time utility maximization). That might come from not owning a microwave, being stuck in a motel or whatever. Which I think is the entire point of paft's post so there ya go.
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Providing reduced cost refrigerators and stoves doesn't seem like an effective way to get people to eat healthier having home ec classes, or maybe just cooking classes, might be.
This doesn't follow logically. I'm going to generalize because the only reduced cost refrigerators are at places like Habitat Re-Store and were never provided to my knowledge by government. But at minimum, having access to refrigeration and an oven/stove seem to me to be a quite necessary prerequisite to eating healthy in most areas of the country. So no, cooking classes ain't gonna cut it.
It's not like poor people are stupid and just need to be taught right. It's more the practical reality of being poor in America often precludes the possibility of acting right(right being healthy, life-time utility maximization). That might come from not owning a microwave, being stuck in a motel or whatever. Which I think is the entire point of paft's post so there ya go.