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

[badgenome]

pezus said:

badgenome said:

Thanks for narrowing it down.

So people are consuming - specifically drinking - more calories, to the tune of roughly an extra day's worth of calories per week. (As of 1995. I'm sure it's worse now.) Is that the big revelation?

The big revelation is why that's happening. It's not as simple as just "they don't have the incentive to brush those extra calories off"

They can stop drinking the shit. I did about a decade ago.

I know I'm coming off like some kind of a cock, but seriously, this sounds exactly like cigarettes. WE DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE BAD ALL THIS TIME HOLY SHIT. It never occurred to anyone that guzzling carbohydrates would make you fat, or that soda isn't a thirst quencher so you tend to just keep on drinking it? Because it's absolutely nothing new to me, even if the chemical reasons are just now being discovered.