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Obesity Rises Faster in Poor Teens

• I don't mean to be callous, but I think there is a major problem here with the definition of terms. By the world's standard, people with too much to eat are not really "poor"
• Boy, this article is full of bullshit. Check out this quote: "The campaign against obesity and the struggle against poverty are, in fact, one and the same," he said. "...Healthier diets cost more." That is in direct contradiction to earlier in the article, where it attributes the increased caloric intake among poor teens to sweetened drinks. In other words, healthier diets cost LESS! Last time I looked, the healthier choice (tap water or a drinking fountain) was a lot cheaper than the unhealthy one (soft drinks). The problem is not their lack of money, but their lack of good parenting and/or education about appropriate lifestyles. Curing their poverty would not help at all. Give 'em all $50,000 per year, and if they simply had more money, they would drink more soft drinks, not less.