Rising Obesity Reason: Poor People Can Finally Afford To Be Fat

Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 13:20 in Health & Medicine

A new review in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians summarizes what is known about economic factors tied to the obesity epidemic in the United States. It includes what most people knew; despite claims of 40 years ago that a population bomb was going to cause mass starvation, agricultural science instead caused the food curve to rise sharply. For the first time in the history of the world, the poorest people can afford to be fat, a privilege only available to the wealthy in past years. read more

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