<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Another question related to this question from a non american. How much<br class="">do you learn in the school system about healthy eating, sports,<br class="">taking care of your body etc.?</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>In my case, nothing. I attended a private school. Maybe the public schools are better, but I doubt they are much better. My health knowledge is completely self-taught. I lived off junk food as a kid and didn’t start learning nutrition and eating healthy until I started having major health problems.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I have heard that in the US, unhealthy food is cheaper than healthy food<br class="">and that is why many low income families have to rely on that to get by,<br class="">and that is very sad (if true).</blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">According to </div><div class=""><a href="https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/" class="">» Calorie Per Dollar List – Eat For 21 Dollars A Week (efficiencyiseverything.com)</a></div><div class="">flour has 4,464 calories per dollar. Rice, which isn’t even very nutritious, has 2,320 calories per dollar. The actually healthy food has significantly fewer calories per dollar than flour so a lot of the food poor families live on is made mostly of unhealthy flour with all the nutrients stripped out and a few synthetic ones added back in.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">But in schools, is there a movement towards teaching proactive health<br class="">practises?</blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">Definitely not in any of the ones I went to.</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 19, 2023, at 11:16 AM, efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On Thu, 18 May 2023, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">We humans have no one to blame. There was no perpetrator. We did this to ourselves.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Another question related to this question from a non american. How much<br class="">do you learn in the school system about healthy eating, sports,<br class="">taking care of your body etc.?<br class=""><br class="">I have heard that in the US, unhealthy food is cheaper than healthy food<br class="">and that is why many low income families have to rely on that to get by,<br class="">and that is very sad (if true).<br class=""><br class="">But in schools, is there a movement towards teaching proactive health<br class="">practises?<br class=""><br class="">Best regards, Daniel<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">extropy-chat mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br class="">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>