How Fat Is Your State?

[TevashSzat]

Generally speaking the pinko welfare states of Europe score much lower (ca. 10%) than the U.S. - except for the UK where obesity is about 23%. Obesity is clearly in the Anglo-Saxon genes. You guys are born slobs.

Anyone offended yet? Good, because my Socialist ethic is offended when poor people are blamed for obesity.

I say let's dispatch this thread a.s.a.p. to the Backroom.

Well, the view is not as much as that poor people are naturally inclined to be obese because since they're poor they're naturally lazy, but that cheap food is naturally less healthy. In America, those on welfare are on the lowest end of the socioeconomic ladder while the welfare states of Europe refer to a socialist government which does not necessarily imply a nation of the poor. Look at the cheap stuff: fast food, canned food, ect...they're all very unhealthy. If you go buy prepared food, salads often cost similarly if not more than the unhealthy stuff even if they aren't as fufilling to one's hunger.

That means that its easier to think about eating healthy if you have the money to back up the wishes, but it is much much harder to do so when you're worried about putting food on the table