Yes, this is what I have seen in Belarus as well until recently. Typically it was people with higher income who became overweight. For example, my grandmother l

Yes, this is what I have seen in Belarus as well until recently. Typically it was people with higher income who became overweight. For example, my grandmother lived through German occupation during 19941-1944 in a small village. For 3 years pretty much the only source of calories for her was potato with occasional fish and mushrooms. She never became overweight and died aged 92. My father (her son) have never experienced any food shortages and was always relatively well feed. Yet he became significantly overweight when he became 50 years old and 20 year later he continues to struggle with that. But then starting about 10 years ago the pattern that I have been observing on the streets started to change. Now it is more common to see over-weighted young people from low income families.