Primordial Ooze wrote:
I question this idea that poor people are fatter because it is supposedly cheaper to eat fattening foods. Maybe that's a piece of it, but they're also making bad choices because there are plenty of healthy cheap foods you can buy for as much or less than unhealthy foods.
You can also look at smoking rates. Basically, the poorer you are, the more likely you are to smoke---
http://www.gallup.com/poll/105550/among-americans-smoking-decreases-income-increases.aspxThe poor can least afford to buy cigarettes, but they smoke at a much higher rate than people who can easily afford it. This clearly is a matter of behavior, not economics. Unlike food, smoking is not a necessity, and a higher percentage of the poor make the unwise choice to smoke.
and you don't think poor people giving into more indulgences has anything to do with them having crap jobs, because they grew up in crap circumstances, worked hard for a way out and never succeeded? because that's the American Dream in action right the hell there. how do you think a poor as hell guy working for 7 bucks an hour and trying to support his drugged out sister and dying father, both without child support, thinks about the common republican claim that poor people are lazy, that's why they are poor?