> If they’re so poor then why are they so fat?
Because they’re so poor they can’t even afford real food, and instead they get these fattening, low-nutrition food substitutes. That’s why poor and fat trend together now.
BS. Decent healthy food is cheap. Never has it been so easy to get nutrients. They’re fat because free money and broad options give them that choice.
See @ABuckAPlate on Twitter.
Nonsense. Good, nutritional food is cheaper than the food people get fat on.
Poor people get fat for the same reasons everyone else does: because they're lazy and impulsive -- lacking in self-discipline. And the very fact that anybody can become not only overweight but actually obese regardless of income is a miracle of modern, petroleum-fueled capitalism.
Blaming so-called poverty for fatness would have been laughed at by anybody living during the past 10,000 years. "Imagine that: fat poor people!"
It's a perfect example of blindness to the incredible prosperity the author writes about.
I think you are missing the point. In virtually all other countries, the poor have NO food. Nothing. Zilch! High carb, high salt food is better than nothing...or grass (North Korea)