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Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested on Wednesday that obesity was only a problem for poor people because theres not a single fat person in rich neighborhoods. On the Fox News show Out Numbered, host Harris Faulkner noted that recent studies had shown that unemployed people were at risk for gaining weight. Id have to think that this is embarrassing for this White House, Faulkner argued. Youve got on the one hand, the first lady doing the Lets Move campaign, and youve got on the other hand, Well, where is the president on the Lets Move with Jobs campaign?
Youre right, their agendas are at loggerheads with one another, Carlson agreed. His economic policy meets her fitness policy, and collision. But Carlson also saw a silver lining in the news that unemployment leads to weight gain. All of us should be happy about one thing, and its that for the first time in human history you have a country whose poor people are fat. So this does show this sort of amazing abundance, he opined. What? Faulkner gasped. For the last however many millennia, poor people starved to death, Carlson explained. And this is a country thats so rich, whose agriculture sector is so vibrant and at the cutting edge technologically, that our food is so cheap, poor people are fat! I mean, I dont know. We shouldnt take that for granted.
The cheaper foods tend to have the more fattening and artificial ingredients, Faulkner pointed out. I just saying, up until about 20 minutes ago historically speaking people just wanted enough calories, Carlson replied. And weve certainly achieved that.
Carlson admitted that people eat their feelings when they were depressed about finding work, but he said that obesity was also a cultural divide. Go to a rich neighborhood, theres not a single fat person on the street, he opined. No one smokes cigarettes, no ones overweight. The middle of the country looks nothing like the edges. And that is a problem, I think. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/14/tucker-carlson-poor-people-are-fat-because-of-access-to-an-amazing-abundance-of-food/
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)straight to the poors dinner plates.
Umm good eats!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Likewise, you're not fat, you're just ... abundant.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)At least in the US?
Being thin is a positional good. Also, the less wealthy races do not have a cultural value on thinness as whites and asians.
Go to Austin. Then go to Hinsdale. Tell me who is thinner.
Oh shit, I just really read what he said, not a single fat person, sweet baby jesus, that is stupid. Hell, Ted Kennedy was rich and a whale.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Which community is likely to have the heavier population ... the one with a single grocery store in a 10 mile radius with costly public transportation and a fast food restaurants and package stores on every corner ... or the population with ready access to transportation and plenty of grocery store choices?
It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out; just an informed person.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Of any home. However, your larger truth is valid.
But please do not insult me that black and hispanic men have different values on a woman's weight. Sir Mix-A-Lot would disagree. Heck, most white dudes in non rich areas disagree. The very thin women thing is for rich folks mostly. And the meth heads.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)On a bus to grocery shop.
I think the rest of your post is misdirected.
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William769
(55,147 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)But, I guess the food desert "meme" depends on what city one lives ... here in the city of Tucson, it is more than a meme. In the city proper, grocery stores are spaced about 5 miles apart; whereas, in the suburbs, one finds 2 in the same block.
He/she is correct about the foo choices, but fails to consider the cost of the high calorie, processed foods when compared to healthier choices. One can buy 3-4 complete "meals" for the cost of one romaine head salad.
catbyte
(34,393 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Endgames
(29 posts)Even for a RWer, he is lol stupid. It would funny if it weren't so pathetic.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Earth Bound Misfit
(3,554 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)No Tucker, poor people are fat because cheap food has zero nutritional value. And when you're that desperate you don't give a shit what you eat.
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)"What exactly is a 'Tucker,' anyway?" -- Gore Vidal, while on Crossfire with Tucker Carlson