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However, further smaller-scale studies--published in journals such as Pediatrics and Public Health--have documented a relationship between obesity and poverty among specific and varied segments of the homeless population. These studies have found a prevalence of imbalanced, fast food-dependent diets among homeless children and higher fat intake and prevalence of obesity--along with significant nutritional deficiency in iron, magnesium, zinc, folic acid, and calcium--among a sample of single homeless mothers. In general, homeless study participants had high-fat diets and high serum cholesterol levels, making them more likely to be obese...
...sexual violence both at home and on the street, but that's just from statistics, not from any knowledge of her specific situation. Because I really don't know anything about this woman, I would never think to write an opinion piece condemning her as lazy, conniving, undeserving, and fat, because to do so would be an embarrassing display of my ignorance and mean-spiritedness. It's too bad that George Hicks does not have the same self-censoring mechanism...
...this woman's weight as a point of ridicule and a "fact" to disqualify her neediness. Hicks' snide confusion over an "obese beggar" demonstrates total ignorance about the nature of obesity and poverty. Hicks (an economics concentrator) is "missing something here." It's more expensive to be thin than fat in America today...
...well, but I don't really see that mild disability keeping her out of the job market. Discriminated against? No, nothing there, either." Fattism does keep people out of the job market. And it can make people miserable. Sadly enough, some people still think it's okay to ridicule fat people...
...reason may be that a lack of post-handshake regulatory headaches may be priceless. "The FCC is a lot less likely to hold up a merger between long-distance companies (MCI and Sprint are Nos. 2 and 3 in that market, respectively) because there?s already a big fat competitor sitting right there," says TIME business writer Karl Taro Greenfeld. "In fact, some of the impetus for MCI to buy Sprint may be to save money and compete even more with...