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Originally Posted by V
They also have no choice. They have to eat what their parents prepare or buy for them.
I don't know if there's been a study, I'm sure there has, but anecdotally I can say that there appear to be far more overweight kids now than there used to be. Poor kids don't have a chance.
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This is a huge, huge statement, and a massive part of the obesity epidemic at least in the US. There are huge swaths of the country, both urban and rural, where access to healthy food is simply not plausible. Areas where an actual grocery store is too far to walk to, and if the family doesn't have access to a vehicle or proper public transportation, they cannot get to an actual grocery store to buy healthy food.
http://apps.ams.usda.gov/fooddeserts/foodDeserts.aspx
Also there's the issue that healthy food--fresh produce, fresh lean meat--is often far more expensive than is preservative-laden, prepared crap. You can get 2000 calories of garbage food for a few dollars, or you can spend $20-30+ on 2000 calories worth of nutritious food. I don't know if this is as much an issue in Canada as it is in the US, but I would say it's a really big part of the obesity problem in this country.