[Bubba Ho-Tep]

You can eat in a perfectly healthy way on a modest income. All that crap food poor people eat—the packaged stuff—is actually far more expensive than fruits, vegetables, meat, and decent poultry. And whether you’re poor or not, no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to put another pile of potatoes on your plate.

Haven't you heard? Healthy eating is a communist plot, and skinny people who excercise are all liberals. Obesity represents is a triumph of free market economics.

[a fool in paradise]

I see plenty of gaunt neo-hippies who think they are “healthy” but they look malnurished to me.

The media talks up “obesity” (with a BMI index that men and women should weigh the same and that doesn’t consider muscle vs fat) and pushes men in “skinny jeans” (girls slacks) and then expresses “concern” about anorexia.

It’s a vicious circle that helps feed the daytime talk show circuit on tv.