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Obesity among the wealthy

Submitted by Philip Brewer on December 21, 2007 - 11:18.

I certainly don't mean to imply that obesity isn't a public health issue that affects rich and poor alike.

There are plenty of fat rich people--but there have always been fat rich people. For hundreds of years the standard caricature of the monied interests was a fat man in expensive clothes. Fat poor people is new. If only it weren't so unhealthy, we could herald it as yet another advancement in society--we're so rich even our poor people are fat!

But it is unhealthy. And, almost as bad, people's negative attitudes toward obesity add to their negative attitudes toward poverty in ways that hurt people who need help.

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