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"DGDevin" wrote:

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Why is it that the most obese people seem to be in the lower income
brackets?

Often because the food they can afford is of poor quality from a nutritional
perspective. Starch and fat are cheap, fresh fruits and vegetables and so
on are not only more expensive but often hard to come by in poor areas.

A lot of it is availability. Nobody gets upset about supermarket
redlining. Although there was a relatively interesting study a year or
so ago trying to get healthy foods into bodegas and similar smaller
neighborhood stories. The County involved tossed a lot of money at the
owners (mostly Korean American as an aside) to get them to stock more
fruits and vegetables and also to get nutritional seminars in the
bodegas. It actually appeared to work for both the owners (they made
money) and the customers (at least according to the questionnaires they
filled out).

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"Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on."
---PJ O'Rourke