I think studies have shown that lower-income people are usually heavier than wealthier folks, supposedly due to not having access to more nutritional foods and developing a reliance on fast food and junk food. Also, blacks tend to develop diabetes at higher rates than whites, again due supposedly to a lack of access to better foods. But, according to this left-wing logic, we need to raise food prices on poor people and blacks, in order to 'help' them! Makes sense to me. Let's get Dr. Dean to work this into his campaign rhetoric...