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General Discussion Area / Re: The link between social status and obesity.
« on: 03 July 2013, 12:09:22 »I think the answers are quite simple.
Victorian England. The poor had a constant fight to afford any food and had to work for their daily food. By work, I mean gather fuel, do washing by hand, walk to place of work.
Now the "poor" have a wealth of cheap food to eat. Packed with calories and very well advertised. McD burgers, cheesywhatthehellits,coke,supermarket war bread, processed cheese with no cheese in it. You could blame it on marketing. You could blame it on laziness.
I remember our trip to the US. There was a chain called Denny's and they had all you could eat breakfast with everlasting coffee for very very little money. The help yourself as many times as you wanted counter had maybe 50 different trays of food including little touched fresh fruit. Two that stuck in my mind were "grits" and we had to ask what the other was as people were ladling it over their fried eggs, bacon, sausage, mushroom, potato fritters etc. It was hot cheese.!! Whole fat families were there stocking up till their next meal.
Yep, Varche........I think you have it about right.
Rather than an endless supply of cheap processed crap, many victorian children and adults were actually calorie deficient. Probably working fourteen hour days on only 1000-1500 calories a day......then they would walk the 3 or 4 miles back to their unsanitary hovel.
going to lose my mind---I get bored doing nothing---cant work on my miggy 
