Interestingly enough the article says that Mississippi had the worst hunger rate, the same state which if I'm not mistaken has the highest obesity rate.  I would make a crack about fat people always being hungry, but I think the issue is more that folks there are getting all the calories they need and then some, just not the nutrition.

 

 

A lack of nutrition doesn't make someone fat. What it does is lead to outbreaks of ailments related to nutritional deficiencies - beri-beri (B1), scurvy (C), rickets (D), night blindness (A), and so on. People in America aren't getting insufficient nutrients in their diet - they are getting too much, of every possible nutrient. This is why they are getting fat - it boils down to being unable to control the amounts they consume because it is so cheap relative to . incomes - even incomes for indigents like food stamp recipients.

 

Hoover used to talk about a chicken in every pot (i.e. two a day per family). Today, each food stamp recipient can subsist on an entire 5lb chicken per day every single day of the month, if he so chooses. That's close to 3000 calories a day, 1000 more than the RDA of 2000. Is it any surprise that people are getting fat?