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1 by Luis, 29 Feb 2012

I uerndstand the reasoning made on blogs and articles which bring up the statement-as-fact of poorer people being fatter because they can't/don't/won't eat the right' foods and so on. But there are problems with this reasoning, some which I addressed in my post. Namely, the lack of evidence that:1) Poor fat families will, when eating the diet of the average middle-income non-fat family, become non-fat or significantly thinner2) Poor fat families eat more calories, fats, and sugars than the average middle-income non-fat family (that is, even if the composition of the foodstuffs is different, where is the evidence that they're eating MORE calories rather than LESS nutrients? Do poorer people not get full like middle-income people, or something? In fact, I think there's evidence that poorer people eat less calories, in general, though I'll need someone to help me dig that study up it was fairly recent, in the past two years or so). We can hypothesize all we want about what people are eating and what effect it has on them, but it still doesn't prove that:1) They're fat because of the wrong' diet and exercise2) We can make fat people permanently thin (or significantly thinner), whether they're poor, middle-income, or rich.I just don't see how it's any different from the food elitism of the middle class, who believe they can diet their way permanently thin(ner) (diet meaning low-carb/low-fat/paleo/organic/whatever). They're just extending that elitism to the poorer classes, and saying, Well hey, since I'm eating fruits/veggies/whole grains/whatever and walking three miles a day and I'm barely losing weight, those poorer people that don't have access to the food I eat or time to exercise the way I do must be fat because of that.