Affluence and obesity tend to be inversely related in modern US culture. Affluence and Hispanic origin likewise, I suppose; though I do remember that when the b

Affluence and obesity tend to be inversely related in modern US culture. Affluence and Hispanic origin likewise, I suppose; though I do remember that when the big rush of immigration began in the mid-1980s that poor Hispanics in the cities tended to be quite healthy compared to others of similar income, probably because of farm or village eating habits carrying over.