The 10 Most Obese States in America (And the Right-Wing Policies That Promote Poor Health)

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7. Poverty and rightwing policies might play some role,

but it goes much farther beyond that. Arkansas might have a high obesity rate, for example, but it's not just poor people. A lot of my former classmates are overweight, but they are not "poor", but many of them are or were inactive. They forgot all about their bicycles as soon as they got their driver's licenses, and many of them spent their high school nights "burger joint hopping". After graduation, a lot of them got jobs just sitting around all day, and because they were making money, they wanted to "live well"-- which meant rich cuts of meat, lots of restaurant meals, high-dollar booze, and so on. A few of them also had a genetic disposition for being overweight, no matter how much they exercised.