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Sugar, Obesity and Diabetes: The Great American Health Epidemic
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<blockquote data-quote="Branhammer" data-source="post: 15129658" data-attributes="member: 164970"><p>My mother raised my brother and I alone and the most she EVER made was $21k per year. I went to college while working full-time at a job where started at minimum wage and was only making $9 when I graduated college. At one point during my college career, my mother got too "depressed" to handle a job and my brother, emulating her, also got "depressed" and managed to get himself home schooled for his senior year of high school because facing school every day was "too hard" for him to handle emotionally. Neither of them worked or did anything around the house. This left me to juggle cleaning and maintaining the home with college and my job. </p><p></p><p>I remember one night in particular when my grandmother had come and stayed with us for a week to try and help out. That night, she and I gathered up the 5 months of past-due bills that my mother had let pile up, sat in the living room floor with our check books, and paid off all of it. It took everything I had saved over a 3-year span and most of what my grandmother had. From that point on, I pretty much paid for everything at that house and supporting two grown adults who wouldn't work.</p><p></p><p>That house was condemned and torn down after we all moved out and I left for the military, as was the home we lived in before that home. And this all took place in WV, one of the lowest rated states for education in the country. So yeah, I understand exactly what demographic to which you are referring. You're assuming too much. </p><p></p><p>I'm insensitive to it because I lived it and I get sick of hearing excuses from others who say that what I did is "too hard." </p><p></p><p>And TIME? Really? I didn't have enough time then and I still barely do now, yet I still find time to cook. It takes 45 minutes or less.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Branhammer, post: 15129658, member: 164970"] My mother raised my brother and I alone and the most she EVER made was $21k per year. I went to college while working full-time at a job where started at minimum wage and was only making $9 when I graduated college. At one point during my college career, my mother got too "depressed" to handle a job and my brother, emulating her, also got "depressed" and managed to get himself home schooled for his senior year of high school because facing school every day was "too hard" for him to handle emotionally. Neither of them worked or did anything around the house. This left me to juggle cleaning and maintaining the home with college and my job. I remember one night in particular when my grandmother had come and stayed with us for a week to try and help out. That night, she and I gathered up the 5 months of past-due bills that my mother had let pile up, sat in the living room floor with our check books, and paid off all of it. It took everything I had saved over a 3-year span and most of what my grandmother had. From that point on, I pretty much paid for everything at that house and supporting two grown adults who wouldn't work. That house was condemned and torn down after we all moved out and I left for the military, as was the home we lived in before that home. And this all took place in WV, one of the lowest rated states for education in the country. So yeah, I understand exactly what demographic to which you are referring. You're assuming too much. I'm insensitive to it because I lived it and I get sick of hearing excuses from others who say that what I did is "too hard." And TIME? Really? I didn't have enough time then and I still barely do now, yet I still find time to cook. It takes 45 minutes or less. [/QUOTE]
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