Surprise: Lean times may actually make you fat

No, more Calories in than out makes you fat.

"Tough times inspire belt-tightening, or so the popular notion goes, but scientists who study public health say they’re worried that a slumping economy will make American waistlines wider than ever.

Rising unemployment, higher food prices and dwindling savings may exacerbate the nation’s obesity problem, sending already high rates ballooning as consumers turn to cheaper, less healthful choices ranging from boxed mac ‘n’ cheese to fast-food dollar menus.

'All evidence suggests that obesity is the toxic consequence of a failing economic environment,' said Adam Drewnowski, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington in Seattle."

Hey, Dumbowski, then why were all those people getting fat when times were good?

"But that doesn’t mean they’re dieting, noted Drewnowski, whose research has found a consistent link between poverty and obesity, including a recent study that showed that obesity rates were five times higher in lower-value Seattle ZIP code areas than in upscale neighborhoods."

Of course there is a link.

Obesity causes poverty, i.e., poveresity.

Not the other way around.

There is no law that makes people who earn less weigh more.

And despite what these agenda-driven jerks say, no matter one's income or wealth it is 100% possible to not get fat and eat healthily.

And it has nothing to do with "healthy" foods, since there are none.

There is only eating healthily.

All these idiots are doing is offering excuses for people who are calorically irresponsible.