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Severe obesity is on the rise in the US
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Same, as a personal story I've been trying to build muscle and eventually bench 225 so I can say with full confidence that there is a conspiracy to make fitness a luxury for the idle rich.
Let's look at some of the most basic lifestyle traits. Walkable cities are for rich people and some people are stuck in car-dependent podunk 'towns'. This means a good chunk of the population might as well be barred from getting enough steps in. It's literally a thing where if someone is ever lucky enough to go on vacation, they will get told "practice your walking".
If you're poor but lucky enough to have a job, porky will do everything in his power to make sure you're too busy to even think about the gym. You wake up in the ass crack of dawn, have to battle busy traffic (some people even commute an hour both ways daily) get worked to the bone and have to battle busy traffic again only to have enough time to prepare yourself for the next day. Try getting any exercise in, let alone time for hobbies, reading, or anything that makes life worth living. But many people also have to deal with having two full-time minimum wage jobs because employers collectively refuse to pay more than minimum wage. I'm mooching off my parent's family plan to the gym right now as I'm struggling with underemployment, so thankfully I have that privilege, but many people don't have that luxury. Also, why WOULD a capitalist country without universal healthcare want a healthy workforce? That's "leaving money on the table", a healthy population might pay less in insurance and rely less on pharmaceuticals among other things, a healthy population is bad for the economy.