I've noticed that when news segments are done on the obesity epidemics, we get lots of drive bys of fat people from the neck down, or with the faces blurred out-but they're never *very* fat. They'll be 40-50 lbs overweight. The TV stations never get videos of the 300-400-500lbs + behemoths I see at wally world. I've never been able to figure that out : Why they illustrate segments on obesity with people who aren't terribly overweight at all, rather than with people who show just how bad it can get.
If you want to see fat people, go to your county health services. The poorest among us are the fattest.
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard, “Well we ain’t got much, but we always eat good.”
It is a cultural thing. When you have little in material wealth, you defend your stewardship of your family by the most obvious method—providing food, even to excess.