Title: Cheap Food Blamed for America's Obesity Crisis
Headings: Cheap Food Blamed for America's Obesity Crisis
Cheap Food Blamed for America's Obesity Crisis
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Content: Cancer Journal for Clinicians and concluded that everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity or socio-economic status, is gaining weight at about the same rate. His graphs clearly show parallel tracks of increasing flab among all groups. "If we want to solve the obesity problem, we have to figure out what has changed for everybody," Sturm said. " And the thing that pops out is our food environment. That's where the action is. And it's not just that food is now cheap relative to income it's also that it's so much more convenient." The researchers found near uniform rate of weight gain among racial and ethnic groups for both men and women. benedict / Rand Corp.
In the 1930s, Americans spent a quarter of their disposable income on food. The most recent data show that share is now under one-tenth. And while cheap, convenient food is a good thing, our biology and our social norms haven't caught up with the abundance.