Much of it has to do with lack of Education about their choices and not having a doctor to tell them either... American processed foods are just full of sugar and corn oil etc etc that are very unhealthy, not to mention the sugary soft drinks...
No. In inner cities, you may have a point. In the Gulf South, where the biggest obesity problem seems to be, the poor go to the same schools, too. They have the same education (except for different parents at home). They play the same activities at recess & PE. They DO have doctors and Medicaid to pay them. Poor pregnant women get free neonatal vitamins and nutrition training starts with WIC. Maybe we should just limit what can be purchased with SNAP like we do with WIC. Would that solve it.
I hear a lot of "they can't help it." People aren't farm animals, not even the poor ones. Generally, an overweight person, rich or poor, can become fit and can eat healthier. I know this because I lost 100 lbs. Its hard. It's not expensive, though, or so sophisticated that "those poor people" just can't understand it. They understand it, just like I did when I was fat, and just like fat and rich Roy Moore does.