Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
American nation suffers from obesity severely. I have some question to participants.
Why is the rate of obesity higher among the poor? Wouldn't you expect the opposite?
And what explains the differing rates of obesity among various races?
Also, the rate of obesity tends to be about the same for men and women, and this holds true when looking at individual races.
One strange thing, however, is that among African-americans, the rate of obesity is significantly higher among women. Why would this be?
Well that's easy. Cheap food = fattening food.
Saved me the the trouble.
This, and in some ethnicities, 'ideal' body type is different. As with some in the black community liking bigger women.
Only recently did thin become attractive. Up until the 1970s or so, fuller figured and outright fat was considered a sign of affluence. Skinny people were considered too poor to eat well.