The other day I took W.C. Varones to task for
making stuff up in another of his posts (as if the actual news didn't provide enough fodder). The
comments devolved into a discussion of nutrition, poverty, and obesity, with Negocios Loucos claiming that the obese family profiled in the radio piece (profiled for their economic situation, not their girth) were an insult to poor people around the world.
Guess what? A couple of doctors responding to an op-ed piece in the
Los Angeles Times point out the
positive correlation between poverty and obesity.
Although one might think that higher food prices would decrease obesity by decreasing food consumption, the reality is that one can expect higher food prices to increase rather than decrease obesity.
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