Re:How to eat healthily on £1 a day
by yummyfajitas on Saturday April 27, 2013 @04:33PM
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Low exercise doesn't cause obesity. Low exercise combined with high caloric intake does. I.e., eating more than you need.
I successfully maintain a healthy bodyweight through periods of low exercise (typically resulting from injury). Right now I put in the effort to eat 4500 (reasonably clean) cals/day. When I'm unable to train, I cut it to 3000.
People suffering depression may choose gluttony at a rate higher than others, but that doesn't mean depression causes obesity. Gluttony does.
If a person were truly financially constrained, they couldn't engage in gluttony if they wanted to.
It's also a product of low exercise (common if you're scraping by with two minimum-wage jobs), depression (common when you're poor), eating (cheap) junk food instead of fruits and vegetables, etc.