Friday, August 17, 2012

Why We're So Fat: What's Behind the Latest Obesity RatesChildren's ...

From US News & World Report?..

It used to be that rich and fat were terms associated with people, not dessert. A portly shape, in fact, signaled the good life. If you ever saw the musical Oliver!, you may recall the number, ?Food, Glorious Food,? in which a stage full of scrawny orphans pine for the gluttony that money can buy: ?Rich gentlemen have it boys, In-di-gestion!? Today, however, we often see the reverse scenario: the leaner your wallet, the fatter you are.

?You have this coexistence of obesity and food insecurity in America,? says Susan Blumenthal, former U.S. assistant surgeon general, clinical professor at Georgetown and Tufts University medical schools, and director of the Health and Medicine Program at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. Finding, and affording, healthy food along with safe places to exercise, are among the challenges that low-income populations face.

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