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Date: 2012-06-21 04:01 am (UTC)Sure, there are long-term health costs to eating so many calories, but there are also long-term health costs to feeling shitty. Among other things, if you're significantly heavy, it may take 600-700 calories in the morning just to feel appreciably full (moderate dieting would involve reducing that gradually, but that still involves some stress and effort, especially if you're in a hurry and have other things to worry about (e.g. the aforementioned toddler)).
There are a lot of ways being poor impacts someone's health, but that doesn't make it fair to hold poor people to a higher standard of asceticism. Eat some pleasurable, quick, filling food for breakfast, use food assistance to obtain some (reasonably) healthy groceries (among other things, to feed your toddler), before (quite probably) heading off to a long shift at a shitty job. It's not optimal, but it's not really that unreasonable or hard to understand.