Everything You've Heard About The Causes Of Rising Obesity Is Wrong
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 10:31
in Mathematics & Economics
People exercise quite a lot, society has access to diverse fresh fruits and vegetables and yet most economic, educational, and racial or ethnic groups have seen their obesity levels rise at similar rates since the mid-1980s, so there is no demographic correlation to obesity. Yet the social sciences draw maps to city parks and farmer's markets and claim more of those would keep people from getting fat, or tout that economic redistribution would lead to less fast food. Cars, fast food, iPads, city living, even women in the work force - if it is something in culture, someone has implicated it. read more