Being able to afford a meal service or go to Whole Foods is also much harder when you live in a food desert. Yes we do give people EBT or something but then it is spent on junk food/soda.
So how do you fix that? Maybe if you’re overweight medically speaking pay more in insurance/taxes? That would never fly tho so we are in the current national predicament.
Skinny woman meant poverty.
Difficult to carry fat on a diet of turnips.
I'd say the reason poor people are unhealthy is the same as the reason they're poor - unwillingness to work.
Living in safe neighborhood to walk in isn't cheap, nor is a gym membership, nor is having time to drive to a nice neighborhood or trailhead to hike.
> Being unemployed provides more time to do healthy things than having a busy job.
People who are chronically unemployed but physically able often have a serious mental health issue that prevents them from holding down a job.
> I'd say the reason poor people are unhealthy is the same as the reason they're poor - unwillingness to work.
The working poor usually have little time in their day to exercise for health, especially when they are working multiple low wage jobs to make ends meet. Many of them work physically demanding jobs that are bad for their health, and are exhausted by the end of their work day - and not a "good" kind of exhaustion at that.