I am a strange mix of privilege and poverty. I was in gifted programs in public school and I have six years of college. I also am a woman and I have serious health issues.
I am getting healthier and I am getting more well off as a consequence. I think a lot about the details of the very complex relationship between health and wealth.
It is a really complicated thing that cannot be pinned down to any one thing. Education, social fabric, enhanced personal agency, greater de facto rights and a whole raft load of stuff tends to be involved in who is both rich and healthy and who gets access to neither.
A couple of excerpts from my food blog:
I basically live on diet coke. Coca cola products contain extract from the coca plant. This has medicinal benefits. No other cola products have this. Other cola products tend to be mostly sugar water -- though I do sometimes drink ginger ale because ginger helps with nausea.
http://miceats.blogspot.com/2016/09/diet-coke.html
Plain water has been gradually creeping into my diet here lately. This is noteworthy because I rarely drank plain water for quite a few years.