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[We were talking about the increase in diabetes in a factoid in this week's Newsweek - which I could explain by rising obesity (type II diabetes, I think, that is). The even higher numbers for black men, and to a lesser extent for black women, I could only speculate that the situation of the urban poor is somehow like that of third world countries that have westernized. In those cases I think the deal is that their local food production ends and "Western culture," that is unhealthy food, comes in. Fatty and calorie-filled food and less physical activity. The kinds of outdoor recreation or lack there-of and jobs or lack there-of available in the inner city might have a similar effect.

-update: according to an article in the economist (circa June 30) malnourished fetuses result in unhealthily sugar- and fat-greedy adult bodies.]

"One of the worst things about poverty is the ignorance it causes. In health, in money and shopping..."