It's the only country with so many fat people, period.

And that has a lot more to do with the huge fraction of processed
foods and fast food restaurants with grossly oversized proportions,
than anything else.

Clearly you've missed the point.

Or, more likely, simply ignored something you apparently wish to deny -- so
let me spell it out for you:

In America -- by comparison to the rest of the world -- there are no poor
people. What we call "poor" here would be rich beyond measure in many
parts of world.

Now, on the other hand, here in the Midwest, in hundreds of dying farm
communities, there are plenty of people living in aching poverty rather than
shame themselves by living on the government dole. Pride still lives in
this part of the world, and I have known many people who would die before
asking for help.

But that doesn't change the fact that -- if they so choose (and, yes, it
*is* a choice) -- in America the poor need not do without.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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www.AlexisParkInn.com
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