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Originally Posted by jethrod3
From having been on food stamps myself while having been a member of a family of 5, I can tell you that just because a family like mine could not go out to eat junk food at McDonalds frequently does not mean that we could not afford "bad" food. And by "bad" food, I mean a lot of lower cost, higher fat, pre-packaged meals that don't cost a lot to feed a family of 4 or 5. We could not afford lean ground beef; we bought cheaper ground beef with higher fat content. I don't need to go into what's going on with high fructose corn syrup, but yup, ate my share of those products as well. I had PE class every day, while not eating large portions of food on a regular basis. So I did get some exercise and did not overeat, and so I have my own experience from which to speak. I have also worked in med centers that treat low income and indigent families, and can tell you that this is not an uncommon scenario. Does it apply to all people though? Certainly not. Quantity of servings, exercise, genetics and food choices (either based or not based on income and poverty levels) themselves factor into the equation, though not all of them may be equal contributors to any one individual's cause fore being obese, or thin for that matter. It's just important to not generalize. We as a society tend to do this.
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Yeah it's important not to generalize. Like assuming fat people = poor people for some reason, even though it is factually true that obesity is cross-class problem. Science, actual science, is important too. If you consume less calories than you burn, weight goes down. If you eat high fructose corn syrup garbage and fast food, you're consuming unhealthy and high calorie food. It has a negative effect on your health. Eating vegetables, for one of many examples, many of which are very cheap, is much more advisable. I too managed to eat while poor, though I didn't get the benefit of food stamps and the taxpayers picking up my meals. I changed my diet around to a healthy one, while poor, after suffering the negative consequences of being fat (which was nobody's fault but my own) and through basic human biology and an iota of self-control, lost that weight by eating less than I burned, and then ate to maintain a healthy weight. I am not special.
Eat more than you need, get fat. Eat less than you need, lose weight. Eat what you need, maintain weight. If you get obese on your diet, you are consuming more than you need (except for the tiny % that actually has a true medical condition here). This is not hard. It's basic biology.