Kat: If you're poor in America, you can't afford to live off of expensive foods, so your food choices are greatly diminished. Many of the cheap foods you're left with are processed and contain unhealthy ingredients. Combine this with other problems that can often go along with poverty (e.g. lower education levels, incr...more

Does being poor make you fat? Only in America. How many fat impoverished people are there in Africa? I'm tired of the excuses - after all, we're footing the bill for people to buy soda with their food stamps, and then they go and buy their diabetic supplies with medicaid funding. I'm not against programs that help peop...more

How are programs which help the poor buy food, and those that cover medical costs from conditions caused/exacerbated by obesity, not relevant to an article about low income and obesity? Actually I think it's a very relevant discussion to have -- a very important discussion, which, like all the others, we are kicking do...more