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

[theprof00]

badgenome said:

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.

In the developed world. That's your qualifier. And the reason why your statement is untrue.

Obesity has nothing to do with initiative, it is entirely the result of mcdonaldization, the corporate takeover of food industry which prevents cheap healthy food from reaching the market.

The problem has nothing to do with initiative and everything to do with the way modern business works. Modern business works to keep people in debt and keep them from succeeding. You can think of it like DLC. Modern business and industrialized countries give their people a cheap game, and then give them DLC their whole lives. Meanwhile, the rich are able to buy the collectors editions right off the bat.

For example, I've worked very hard for everything I have, and I don't mean very hard as in "being diligent" etc etc etc. I mean working 2 and sometiems 3 jobs, (while going to school) walking 5 miles to get home after 1 am during winter simply to save 1.75$ on the bus...going the summer without hot water, and sometimes as late as early fall. I'm thankful I finally have a job that allows me some comfort after years of hard work, and even now, I'm stuck paying nearly a quarter of my paycheck on past medical bills. I've had to learn to make shady connections with people in which we trade our services (like I hook up a friend with food and in return he provides me a gym membership).

And I still got fat for a while during that period, because all I could afford to eat was hamburger, rice, and corn, and whatever was sent back to the kitchen for being an incorrect order.

So no, I completely disagree with your poverty and obesity correlation to initiative.