Unhealthy food is cheap and easy. A healthy, active lifestyle requires time and energy.
It's similar to mental health, which also takes time, money, and energy to deal with. Telling someone that it's okay to struggle with mental illness isn't encouraging them, it's letting them know that there's nothing wrong with them as people, that they are suffering because of a fundamentally unjust societal structure which exacerbates their condition.
Healthy food is also cheap and easy, we just don't have big-health advertisement being constantly shoved down our throats like junk food advertisement is.
Unhealthy food is cheap and easy. A healthy, active lifestyle requires time and energy.
It's similar to mental health, which also takes time, money, and energy to deal with. Telling someone that it's okay to struggle with mental illness isn't encouraging them, it's letting them know that there's nothing wrong with them as people, that they are suffering because of a fundamentally unjust societal structure which exacerbates their condition.
It's not just similar, it can be closely linked. If I'm too depressed to leave the house do you think I have the energy to regulate my meals?
Healthy food is also cheap and easy, we just don't have big-health advertisement being constantly shoved down our throats like junk food advertisement is.