10-30-2015, 07:59 PM
(10-30-2015, 04:06 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I still stand by the "notion" that wealthy nations (e.g. by GNI PPP), by whatever distributive process, results in more obesity for it's citizens.
Yeah, but it's Simpson's paradox, innit? (What goes in one direction for the whole, goes in the other for some subgroups.) Richer *countries* are more obese, but within those countries, it's the *poorer* people who are more obese. So there has to be more than just distributional issues going on, some people with too much, others with too little.
It all seems to suggest to me it's processed food which is to blame. The cheapest and easiest way to eat is unhealthily. But it could be all sorts of things.
-Jester