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When you work 12 hours shifts sometimes it's hard to cook a healthy meal. The next cheapest option is McDonald's and other fast food.

Nobody said anything about starvation or wants to comment on stereotypes, eating healthy has many things to do with being poor though.

Why wouldn’t you eat all you can when you’re not sure you’ll continue to eat?

Fat doesn’t mean they’re healthy. People who are obese can only stop eating if they’re still getting vitamins and minerals through some other mechanism. If you just stop eating completely, you could actually kill yourself.

You are correct, it's not the food deserts, redlining, institutional and systemic factors, widespread government corruption spearheaded by Coke and McDonalds lobbyists promoting unhealthy products, that led to poor nutritional attainment among poor Americans.

It's the lack of discipline.

Give me a a break.

> it's not the food deserts

As they don’t buy those things.

> redlining

Not sure what that has to do with food.

> institutional and systemic factors

Hand waving.

> promoting unhealthy products

Coke and McDonalds don’t put the straw or the fries in your mouth. The 4th point of yours is the lack of discipline on the part of these people.