# Health food store customers: the biggest argument against health food.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-food-store-customers-the-biggest-argument-against-health-food/423560>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 22, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-food-store-customers-the-biggest-argument-against-health-food/423560 "2007-10-22T14:13:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zambini57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4491bb/32.png) [@Zambini57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zambini57)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-food-store-customers-the-biggest-argument-against-health-food/423560/21 "2007-10-23T22:27:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Finagle]  
Well, one possibility: Who do you think is more likely to be shopping at a health food store, the person who is ridiculously healthy or the one who feels vaguely rotten? Something motivates people to shop at an alternative food store. I can easily see someone who’s sick being motivated to change their eating habits (or at least hitting up the various nostrums and snake oils that a lot of health food stores sell).  
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Exactly.

People who shop at health food stores are people who are trying to BECOME healthy, not necessarily people who are only trying to maintain a healthy body.

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