Did you know that the less money you make the more possible it is for you to become obese?

Question

The main factors here are being unable to buy higher quality foods. Low quality foods tend to have more fillers such as multiple types of fat.

Anyone that knows what transfat is knows that it is a cheaply made hybrid fat that can take a cup of vegetable oil and double the amount while increasing it's shelf life, but at the same time makes it 10 times more deadly.

Speaking of trans fat... If you want to know if a product truely contains transfat (even if it says 0 grams trans fat) look at the ingredient label for hydrogenated oil/animal lard.

It's not that poorer Americans choose to be obese 100%. It is just that they can't afford the foods with less fat fillings.

FACT!

Well Sjean poverty also comes within those who are poorly educated as well...

Answer 1

You are absolutely right - only rich people can afford health food. And, poor people often have to work a lot of hours, and frequently have very short lunch breaks on their jobs (if they get a lunch break at all) so they often have to eat fast food for breakfast lunch and dinner. That's why there are so many diabetics in poor neighborhoods

Answer 2

What about healthy foods like beans and vegetables? They're inexpensive and available. Give us some examples of the "low quality foods" you talk about.

Lots of poor Southerners I see are drinking many sodas every day. Transfats are mostly in packaged cookies and baked goods which poor people shouldn't be spending their money on.

Answer 3

All hydrogenated fats are bad (hydrogenated fats are those fats processed from the vegetables or animial fats using very high heat). No matter if they are trans fats or not. The only good fats are those processed naturally via cold pressing.

Answer 4

yep, the government cheese isnt exactly "health" food.