Originally Posted by
Mugwump
Except in rich countries, it's the opposite. Certainly in the US, obesity is becoming almost a class marker, rather as smoking has become over the last 30-40 years.
People in rich societies are obese not because they are personally really well off, but because those societies are able to produce very cheap high-calorie food, even if the overall nutritional content of that food is questionable. When a burger and a bag of fries from a fast-food place costs less than what you could make yourself, and saves all the shopping time and prep time to boot, and when the fast food has been deliberately engineered to be "tasty," then it's not a surprise what the natural outcome will be. And people who are less prosperous are going to be a lot more vulnerable to that. As I say, obesity is becoming a class marker. For middle- and upper-middle class people, especially those in cities, it's become more of a thing to be careful with the quality of the food they buy (e.g., organic produce, meat from free-range GMO-free animals, etc.), and also the ability to discern "better" foods and to prepare your own food has become not just a point of pride, but something that's more expected and appreciated among one's social peers.
you have to have money to buy any food good or crappy. they dont give it away. when your government is rich enough to feed over 47 million people through snap. ive been to africa 4 times, asia once. they dont have any money to buy anything. as arnold the weight lifter says what you dont use turns to fat.
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