Is Junk Food Really Cheaper Analysis

Good Food > Bad Food In the articles, “Gap in Diet Quality Between Wealthiest and Poorest Americans Doubles, Study Finds” by Tracie McMillan and also “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?”by Mark Bittman. They make a couple of claims about the food in America and how cheap or expensive it is to get healthy food for an American that has financial struggles. Firstly, The claim(s) made by Tracie Mcmillan is that there is a large gap between the wealthy and the poor. Over the past decade the wealthiest Americans have improved on their diet while the low-income Americans have worsened. Since the pricing on healthy foods are high low-income americans don’t have access to fresh food. Also many poor neighborhoods don’t have any access to quality supermarkets, in which brings another point that Tracie Mcmillan claims based on studies that between 2005 and 2010 the diet of all Americans “improved” but in reality it was masked the poor diet has declined in quality diet. …show more content…
“Education will only get you so far,” she said saying that education is the most important when purchasing the food for yourself or family, in which she mentioned that it’s best to know what you’re consuming also make sure it’s not dangerous. Another point that is brought up on the diet is that today two thirds of Americans of all classes are overweight or obese, higher rates among the poor. Commonly, this article “Is Junk Really Cheaper?”.informs us with just about the same topic but more focus on the financial stance the low-income americans are in and seeing if junk food is cheaper than real