Word: overweightness
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...more prevalent assumption people have isthat poverty may cause overweight[ness]," saidGortmaker. "While that may be happening, at thesame time, it seems that obesity may be asignificant determinant of poverty...
...paper written by Steven L. Gortmaker of the Harvard School of Public Health and Dr. William Dietz of Boston's New England Medical Center describes lower socioeconomic status among overweight young adults...
They found that overweight women are 20 percent less likely to get married, finish fewer years in school, have a 10 percent higher poverty rate and earn $6,710 less in annual household income...
...same study, Gortmaker reports that overweight men did not exhibit the same extent of socioeconomic differences as women. But men who were one foot shorter in height than average showed a 10 percent increase in poverty rate and earned $3,000 less income per year...
Gortmakersaid the study verifies the existenceof discrimination against overweight people. Hesaid it refutes the popular conception that lowsocioeconomic status causes obesity...