Reduced poverty = reduced obesity and diabetes (RCT)
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Poor people have higher rates of obesity. There are those who believe that's because the poor lack self-control and discipline, overeating when they should be pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. That hard-core personal responsibility ethic is hard to refute, maybe because it contains a grain of truth, maybe because it lets all us non-poor people off the hook. It's an issue where opinion and personal politics have ruled, because proving that cultural or environmental factors directly influence obesity seems almost impossible. But as Ludwig et al report, it looks as if that's exactly what the supposedly feckless U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has done.
Reduced poverty = reduced obesity and diabetes (RCT)
Reduced poverty = reduced obesity and…
Reduced poverty = reduced obesity and diabetes (RCT)
Poor people have higher rates of obesity. There are those who believe that's because the poor lack self-control and discipline, overeating when they should be pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. That hard-core personal responsibility ethic is hard to refute, maybe because it contains a grain of truth, maybe because it lets all us non-poor people off the hook. It's an issue where opinion and personal politics have ruled, because proving that cultural or environmental factors directly influence obesity seems almost impossible. But as Ludwig et al report, it looks as if that's exactly what the supposedly feckless U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has done.