My initial reaction is that yes, you do seem to be living in a very strange bubble. And, I say this out of curiousity rather than malice, I wonder whether you struggle with empathy?
There are any number of reasons why people can't consciously prioritise those things. Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs comes to mind.
No malice taken, I do struggle with empathy, yes. To me a lot of people seem to just make unforced errors.
There's like, someone who stands on a landmine and can't go to work, or someone who has a chronic condition that makes them feel nauseous all the time, etc.
That doesn't explain 40% of a country being obese whilst the other 60% isn't, though.
I grew up in the UK. We have approx 30% obesity rates so less than the US but still pretty crazy.
Single parent who worked (and still does work) low paid manual labour style jobs. Same with the estranged parent who was around for a while.
I dunno. People talk about being a surroundings thing. But then the way it has worked for me and my siblings is that for the most part we've looked at the ways in which our own parents failed and tried to improve on that.
For what it's worth we ate a lot of "crap" food growing up but just portion controlled it reasonably I guess?
There are any number of reasons why people can't consciously prioritise those things. Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs comes to mind.