Quote of the Day – 2009/10/9
By John Goodman Filed under Uncategorized on October 9, 2009 with 3 comments
Sickness, poverty, and obesity are spun together in a dense web of reciprocal causality. Anyone who’s fat is more likely to be poor and sick. Anyone who’s poor is more likely to be fat and sick. And anyone who’s sick is more likely to be poor and fat.
Engber also explores the relationship between health, wealth and obesity with a novel idea: that poor people have an incentive to trade health for happiness. He says “since they don’t have as much money to spend on happiness, they ‘spend’ their health instead. To illustrate his point he explains, the “pleasures of smoking and eating, for example, are easy on the wallet and hard on the body.”
Nice quote.
Poor equals fat? Gosh, what country is Mr. Engber from?