What makes poor Americans overweight?
Speaking as an overweight poor American, I’ve had enough of unknowledgeable right-wing BS on this point. So let’s look at a few realities, shall we? (UPDATE 3 October 2008 with another possible reason.) • Americans are overweight. What is it now, two-thirds of all adults? So all the reasons that apply to the non-poor also apply to us, and some even more to us, such as advertising, cheap and convenient bad food, the corporate-owned USDA “nutrition” guidelines all these years, little else available all these years what with overrefined grains and vegetables, an increasingly-sedentary workstyle and lifestyle, TV-watching, computer-watching like you and I are doing right now, no time for exercise, the automotive lifestyle, etc etc etc. But more specifically: • Many of us poor have health problems that cause weight gain or interfere with weight loss, directly or indirectly; in my case, IBS and “nonspecific ambulatory painful foot syndrome” – an uncompensated work injury. • Many of us poor a
