A diet fueled by food stamps is making South Texans obese but leaving them hungry

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22. Foolish article.

You look around Texas you find a lot of obese people not on food stamps.

You find that at some point there are fewer obese people at higher income levels, but still the overall impression is that either a huge cloud of radioactive iodine wiped out a huge percentage of thyroids or people eat foolish. (That's not a mistake, putting in an adjective for an adverb--it's called "secondary predication" and should be unpacked not as "people eat in a foolish manner" but "people are fools when they eat". It's not in the prescriptive canon of Latin-based 18th-century English that grammar nazis like, but it's been in English for, oh, 1000 years or more.)


So for the article we have to say that food stamps are pushing people to be obese.

But we have other factors pushing those not on food stamps to be obese.

One result. But we are told we absolutely must posit at least two necessarily distinct causes without any grounds for having more than one.