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Originally Posted by blankall
Obesity was high both before and after the blockade. Also, you aren't reading your own studies correctly.
The studies have to do with poor people in America. I really don't see how a study showing that poor people in America eat too much McDonalds, has anything to do with the proposition that people in Gaza are "starving".
I don't dispute that the people of Gaza have been through a lot. However, access to food is not a major problem of theirs, nor has it ever been. As I stated previously, they have one of the fastest growing populations in the world and also one of the most obese.
Even if everything you're saying is true, which it isn't, you still have dealt with the issue of Israel not controlling all of Gaza's borders.
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My interest here is to have a meaningful discussion. If we're all going to make up facts and associations based on the outcome we want, then let me know and I'll refrain from commenting.
And I think it is rich that you're suggesting that I need to read the studies that I posted. First of all, 10 minutes passed between my post and your rebuttal. Am I to believe that you read my post, the three papers I linked in their entirety, and drew up your rebuttal all within 600 seconds? Especially considering that one of the papers is behind a paywall...
As to your off-hand generalization about Americans eating McDonald's, I think it's just a clear way of trying to dismiss the topic through some vague authority posture. The contributing factors to obesity that I outlined in a prior post are applicable regardless of having a McDonald's or Wendy's on the street corner of your neighbourhood.