“let us bust the myth of physical activity and obesity. You cannot outrun a bad diet”

[KitSileya]

50. Unfortunately, America's poor don't have access to either exercise or proper nutritional food.

Most of them live in places where you can't take a proper walk, in apartments that are too small for exercising, and can't afford gym membership. They also don't have time - or the energy - to take an hour here or there to exercise. And the time and energy problem makes it impossible for them to eat healthily too. They live in places without kitchens, without refrigerators, without grocery stores nearby. Their money is better spent on cheap, processed food that doesn't need refrigeration and/or preparation to get the calories they need while at the same time working incredible hours with incredibly bad schedules. Their metabolism is whacked from the food they were raised on, the food they are eating now, and the sleep schedule (or lack of sleep, more like it) that they are forced to keep.

And as a result, they are much more likely to be obese, and therefore to be seen as lazy, when in reality they are exhausted both physically and mentally from the fact that they live on a knife's edge, where every step is as convoluted as hell, and just one misstep will land them in homelessness, if it hasn't already.

And more and more Americans are becoming poor. Calories in and calories out is perfectly fine for middle class Americans that can drive to Safeway's and buy plenty of vegetables, but if you only have $29 to feed your family of four for the week, and no refrigerator, do you think that salad will keep for long and feed your kids for a week?