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bad fatty food cheap
poor people buy cheap easy food
junk food = cheaper food
The cigarette companies used everything they learned about making cigarettes more addictive to make junk food more addictive. Fat children are the fallout.
So basically like you just said all kids in the country are poor?
Poverty isn't the only cause of obesity. There have been countless marketing campaigns for sugar, and for those of us who are used to "normal" levels notice it right away; As a European who have spent a lot of time in the US, I find US bread basically inedible.
You have been eating the wrong bread.
Or they don't like bread that's essentially cake
Are all kids obese?
16% of children are below the poverty line. But even someone just above the poverty line might not be able to afford healthy food.
19.7% of children are obese.
These numbers are awfully close, don't you think?