sf wrote:
>
> Higher costs and limited supermarket access are cited as barriers to
> good health. Of course, fair and amusement park food isn't mentioned
> because as with recreational drugs, poor people can't afford it.
>
> Notice that the article says: Today **two-thirds** of Americans of all
> classes are overweight or obese, with higher rates among the poor.
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...r-food-health/

A very large portion of the problem is education. Unless you learn how
to cook and what constitutes a healthy diet you are unlikely to have a
healthy diet. The cost angle is bogus, it has been shown time and again
that healthy food does not cost more than unhealthy food, you just have
to shop smarter to find healthy food at non-inflated prices. Indeed the
ethnic markets which tend to be more accessible to the poor also tend to
have better prices on a lot of food, including nice healthy non
overpriced non organic produce. The problem is generational ignorance in
the inner city minority areas, if your parent served unhealthy food and
you dropped out of school you probably aren't going to learn how to
cook, shop smart or formulate a healthy diet.