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Meat, veg, fruits and nuts are expensive - and they go bad. You simply can't always afford them and sometimes you can't actually buy fresh stuff. You see, a fa

Meat, veg, fruits and nuts are expensive - and they go bad. You simply can't always afford them and sometimes you can't actually buy fresh stuff. You see, a fair amount of poor folks get paid once a month, and since there aren't a lot of little grocery stores nearby, folks wind up buying food once and hoping it lasts the month. Poor folks don't always have steady electricity nor a refrigeration, either: Living without a fridge makes your diet go to crap pretty quickly. Time is another luxury poor folks have issues with, which also makes diets go awry.

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
While there are clear differences between obesity rates between rich and poor in the US, basically everything you've put up is personal speculation: > Poor folks don't always have steady electricity nor a refrigeration, either: Living without a fridge makes your diet go to crap pretty quickly. Differences between access to steady refrigeration is extremely slim for people in the US for all but the poorest of the poor (basically homeless) > Time is another luxury poor folks have issues with, which also makes diets go awry. In the US poor people have more free time, on average, than wealthy people: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-free-time-paradox-in-america/499826/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-fre... There are other studies that suggest the causality is the opposite: obese people are more likely to become poor: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5781054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5781054/ That study is definitely not broadly convincing in my opinion, but just want to point out that there is a ton of baseless speculation in this thread trying to explain the obesity/wealth relationship.
- JohnWhigham 5y ago
  At some point, it's the obvious that no one is stating: the American style of life makes a lot of people lazy as fuck, and they just don't give a fuck about working on their waistlines.

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago

While there are clear differences between obesity rates between rich and poor in the US, basically everything you've put up is personal speculation: > Poor folks don't always have steady electricity nor a refrigeration, either: Living without a fridge makes your diet go to crap pretty quickly. Differences between access to steady refrigeration is extremely slim for people in the US for all but the poorest of the poor (basically homeless) > Time is another luxury poor folks have issues with, which also makes diets go awry. In the US poor people have more free time, on average, than wealthy people: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-free-time-paradox-in-america/499826/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-fre... There are other studies that suggest the causality is the opposite: obese people are more likely to become poor: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5781054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5781054/ That study is definitely not broadly convincing in my opinion, but just want to point out that there is a ton of baseless speculation in this thread trying to explain the obesity/wealth relationship.

JohnWhigham 5y ago
At some point, it's the obvious that no one is stating: the American style of life makes a lot of people lazy as fuck, and they just don't give a fuck about working on their waistlines.