As another immigrant who came to the US dirt poor, I can absolutely say that I consumed cheap fast food as an escape from constantly thinking about how to impro

As another immigrant who came to the US dirt poor, I can absolutely say that I consumed cheap fast food as an escape from constantly thinking about how to improve my lot and climb out of poverty. I bet that has had a non-trivial negative effect on my health. Once I was more financially comfortable, I began making way more of the optimizations that most middle and upper class folks in the US treat as just "standard good practices", like maxing out your 401k, putting it in market-tracking funds, not picking stocks, etc.