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The issue is that health is also a function of free time. Making good, healthful meals takes time and mental effort, and if you're working two or even three jobs to make the bills, at the end of the day, you likely don't have enough time or spoons to do much more than toss a pizza in the oven or make some cup ramen or whatever.
The reason fast foods are unhealthy isn't because it's impossible to make healthy fast food. It's because unhealthy food hijacks the biological processes that make you want to eat and they are designed to make you eat more than you need to so that in turn you spend more on food. If we massively taxed unhealthy foods to the point where it cuts into profit margins healthy alternatives that fill the niche of "fast food" would come about.