Oh yeah, money. I doubt it has a very big impact on health consciousness though it depends I suppose. If one is EXTREMELY poor, of course it’s a problem but if one have the income of half a minimage wage in a not 1st world country, one may eat pretty well then (it gets WAY harder with health problem and when the body doesn’t accept cheap but decent food or if one has lots of other costs). I am very poor and the healthier my diet, the cheapest it gets, interestingly, to some extent, at least, of course I could use unnecessarily* good quality meats and they are much more expensive but availability and convenience comes into the way even more than money.
*I mean, I doubt it would change my health noticeably… It may not be true for other people but I am pretty healthy and lucky, mere supermarket meat works and I am fine with zero ruminant meat (it’s luxury, even the cheapest cuts but I still eat a bit here and then. variety is nice. I rather skip the coffee, not like it goes well but I do try… I am not poor enough to stop it, apparently. or not overeating at least occasionally).
Money is rarely the problem as I see (sure, it is for masses but in a not very poor, undeveloped country, most people could eat LOADS better). Normal poor people make horrible financial choices even when it comes to food. It may be very hard to lose weight, I know that, it’s even worse if one is ignorant or doesn’t care enough to do their homework but I still wouldn’t blame money in most cases. Homemade and simple food is the cheapest, almost always. And why to spend money on useless things like added sugar all the time? It just costs money (more than the sugar itself, in many cases and I don’t even think about health costs, just the extra food it brings) and does harm, no good. Except if the sugary sweetness saves someone from depression or suicide but I doubt it happens and it shouldn’t… Coping with food is usually not the best.
At least they are related… I consider both good if the ingredients are right… And there are amounts. I wouldn’t depend on processed meat items but eating them every day sounds a great idea to me personally. Unless I manage to eat enough normal meat, I usually get bored while hungry… Can’t see anything wrong with a little, good sausage!
The worse stuff with too much plastic on it? (I am garbage conscious. If we have more garbage than the 1/30th of the allowed, we are bad, it’s already very much… Half of it was eggshells in the past
) Yeah, I avoid those.
BUT I avoid a lot of things. A little deli meat here and there probably wouldn’t make one very sick if everything else would be mostly okay… Things may add up though… I like to find my most problematic points instead of sacrificing something nice and mostly harmless. It’s plant carbs for me. Some are fine but it’s easier to slip if I don’t keep them really low. So it’s good to be stricter than necessary for health if we only consider the item and not what it may do to our decisions a bit later… I think about this a lot when I read “enabler” articles (you know, the ones talking about a healthy diet but mentioning a lot that adding anything we really like in moderation or just sometimes is fine, possibly very much needed for our sanity… and of course, we can’t just go to a party without eating sugary treats and drinking sugary drinks, it’s life…). It sounds too bad as it may be perfect for many. And totally not for others. I am all for doing things the strictest where it’s still fine and enjoyable. Sometimes stricter than that, for training or when it’s very needed for health, we can’t just prioritize short term enjoyment (it’s not the best idea anyway. a proper hedonist doesn’t make themselves suffer later even if it’s not horrible for their health yet). I understand most of us aren’t that great, it’s just the plan. My plan doesn’t involve deliberately going off a bit all the time (I easily make mistakes too often without a bad basic attitude, thank you very much), those articles aren’t for me (and they advise a very different diet than what I would enjoy anyway).
The dietary guides aren’t enablers at all. It seems to me they expect the impossible (for many of us, at least) and the wrong (I wonder if I can find a better one for some countries).
“Most calories from carbs” never was even remotely possible for me as carbs trigger irresistible, very strong fat craving in my case, no matter if I already overate or not, fat MUST come. It was a good guide for me when I finally stopped and started to think and saw that there is something beyond HCHF (everyone I knew ate like that, I had no idea and never stopped to think about it for decades). We are different, we can’t all find our happiness eating One True Healthy Diet, such a thing doesn’t exist. It’s bad that the advised one is very wrong but expecting everyone doing keto would be wrong too especially if it was one specific style. It’s important that we have different needs, circumstances, priorities, sensitivities…etc. We all need enough fat and protein, all kinds of essential nutrients but it doesn’t need we should eat the same diet. I never saw acknowledging this fact in dietary guidelines.