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Poorer people can't afford good food and have to eat mostly starchy staples. That's why their health is generally worse. And you are quite wrong about low inc
by kingkongrevenge 18y ago
Poorer people can't afford good food and have to eat mostly starchy staples. That's why their health is generally worse.
And you are quite wrong about low income "universally" meaning poor health. There are poor populations all over the world with good health from good diets. The healthiest sub-population in the US, and possibly the healthiest group in the industrialized world, are working class whites in the upper mid-west, in states like Minnesota. They eat a lot of meat.
- icey 18y agoI guess those nuts over at the MacArthur foundation have no idea what they're talking about. You may want to submit your theories there. http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.951947/k.11B4/Research_Networks__Socioeconomic_Status_and_Health.htm http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.951947/k.11B4/R...
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoI guess this is some survey of the US which concludes the obvious: that income and health generally correlate. The best lesson to extract is probably "Don't eat like poor people." Which was my original point. It still ignores the plain fact that various poor populations with good diets are quite healthy. The exceptions invalidate the simplistic assumption about the general case and point to diet.