It is in many ways a class issue. A Big Mac (for example) is generally cheaper than a salad.
McDonald's sells salads now. They aren't that much more expensive. (it's $1 to $2 difference, depending on where you are) However, $1 double cheeseburgers are definitely cheaper and the only thing that might qualify as a vegetable on it are pickles.
However, I think that even if the salads were sold for $1 most people would rather have the double cheeseburger.
those salads can be as calorie laden as one of their burgers if you use salad. the issue here is really several things.
1. if you're used to eating junk you crave junk. this is why so many people think healthy food tastes bad but those of us with better diets think a lot of the stuff they eat tastes like garbage. we have conditioned ourselves to like what we like. if you cut yourself off from junk and start eating a lot of fruit instead a lot of the time it won't feel as appealing.
2. its been proven that once you get to a certain weight your brain frequently re-adjusts and starts compulsively craving food all the time. its kind of like having a broken car brake.
3. people just don't walk anywhere. so many suburbs and cities are not pedestrian or bike friendly at all. and even if they were people wouldn't take advantage. that definitely adds up. this is one of the main reasons i dropped about 30 pounds a year ago.
4. obviously that there's way, way too much sugar in most people's diets. it's extremely easy for your body to convert carbs to fat in the absence of massive amounts of exercise especially if its not complex carbs. its extremely easy to become horrendously sick even if you're skinny if you adopt the typical american habit of several sodas a week/day.
5. ridiculous lobbyists from the corn industry and other parasites that purposely are pushing garbage on us. this is obviously why we have nonsense like hfcs and pizza as a vegetable.
6. americans are massively stressed, depressed and over medicated. obviously that has more to do with the complete and utter failure of our society than them individually.
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