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Originally Posted by SSJTWIZTA
I live in a trailer park and dont even have a car, im pretty sure i qualify as poor, and im pretty damn thin...dont stereotype us. :P
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I think another part of the equation is that you might not be poor and staying poor. Being upwardly mobile sort of takes you out of the control group when we're trying to consider a correlation between long-term poverty and poor nutrition leading to being overweight. I grew up poor and am some place between poor and not quite poor anymore now. I was never fat, but then I don't consider myself to be your average poor person. I always considered myself to be upwardly mobile. Some people (a lot of the people who stay poor) don't tend to have that attitude. If you could account for the upwardly mobile people, I bet the correlation between poor and fat would be even stronger.