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Do you think there is a correlation between wealth, or lack there of, and obesity?


I know this is probably not the right category for this question but this is definitely the catagory with the best minds on Yahoo Answers.

I am just an everyday person. middle class I feel wealth gives you the ability to buy any kind of groceries you want. If you live on min. wage you shop were you get the best value for your dollar in our town that is Aldis. At one time they only carried one line of foods they were all full of fat!!

Now they have a new lite line which helps so I do feel with wealth comes the option of eating healthier and actually being able to afford it.
i think that the rich have the time and the sources to keep healthy.
I can think of a couple that are heavy, but I sure theirs is genetic. The relation is virtually 1:1. This is because of diet. Of course the same can be said of the San people with different results.
The Chinese believe that when you are fat you are wealthy.
I think there is definitely a correlation between the two. I know myself when I was my ideal body weight I got much better jobs, and opportunities I can't even dream about having now. When I was thin I didn't even have to try to get anyway, now I have to practically kill myself to get even a fraction of the way I used to.

It's difficult to pin point people who are wealthy who are heavy. I know plenty of heavy millionairs but I don't know if they started heavy or just became that way because it didn't matter anymore, they were already where they needed to be. How about John Candy, Rodney Dangerfield, Oprah, and Chris Farley. Of course two of them are dead, perhaps that tells you something in itself.
money to buy healthier groceries - fresh produces, lean meats, fish

cheaper foods tend to be fat and carb loaded

money for health fitness programs and personal trainers

help - money to pay for help around home so that you are not spending all of your time doing day to day tasks that have do be done after being at work all day.
First of all, thanks for the relative compliment on mindset.

I have some friends that are definitely "comfortable" with respect to earnings/wealth. Most of them are not obese. One is a 4th degree black belt.

But one is definitely not into physical fitness. He is a strange combination of things; a big man that could probably snap us in two like kindling, takes a lot of herbal supplements, a licensed massage therapist, but he also likes his intoxicants, in the broadest sense of the word.

So, you could be onto something.
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