Honestly, this has been known for years.
The biggest boom to weight loss over the last 30 years has been the low carb craze. You don’t get very low carb on low cost diets.
Go to Aldi’s and live for weeks on their food. You will gain weight.
Along with that, if you are on food stamps, with a tv, DVD, and cell phone, you don’t move much. They actually go hand in hand.
I’m not saying any of it is right, just explainable.
Easy solution, get up, get a job and buy some veggies. Even frozen.
Even then you can eat decently. You can get carrots, spuds, cabbage, onions, lean poultry and frozen veggies there.
...”if you are on food stamps, with a tv, DVD, and cell phone”...
These are “poor” people? Give me a break. The “poor” in Africa starve to death, the “poor” in the USA get fat. The fallacy of using the word “poor” to describe fat people who own cell phones, a DVD player, and TV is stunning in its ignorance of reality.
ROTFLOL! I remember a time when Aldi's was all we could afford and you're right, it was nothing but processed carbs.