Why are minorities more likely to be obese and have diseases?

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theprof00 said:

Poor people regardless of race have an exponentially greater tendency towards obesity than people who aren't poor.

badgenome said:

theprof00 said: badgenome said: IIIIITHE1IIIII said: Poverty ---> Depression ---> Unhealthy lifestyle Or the same lack of initiative that leads to poverty also leads to obesity. That's the ticket. Minorities are more obese because in comparison to whites, they have less initiative.

In America.

In the developed world in general. The main outliers are places like Qatar - the richest (per capita) and fattest nation in the world - where physical labor is eschewed and done largely by poorer, less obese immigrants.

It's the nature of a post-scarcity society. Obesity used to be a trait of the rich, the only people who could afford to become obese, but it has now become a trait of the poor.