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Obesity is a disease of the poor in the west and the rich everywhere else

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AllUpInWomanBusiness · 30/10/2020 14:34

OK, so I realise I’m unreasonable to be stating the obvious, but isn’t this wild? For the first time in human history fattening food - sugar, meat - is more affordable than the alternative. And poor people are eating themselves to death. It’s heartbreaking isn’t it?

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Linguaphile · 31/10/2020 20:43

Disease of excess

zatarontoast · 01/11/2020 11:37

@GetoffyourHighHorse I was referring to Africa (as the pp made reference to lots of obese Africans) where food poverty is a real thing, it is not about people who cba to cook and would rather eat processes foods. That is a fairly western phenomena.

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