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A meal at McDonald's winds up costing, what, six or seven bucks? That's quite a lot by home-cooking standards. You can easily put together a nutritious meal at home for that kind of money (grilled chicken + rice + fresh vegetables, frinstance). Don't get me started on the alleged nutritional benefits of so-called "organic" vegetables over the cheap-ass vegetables you can buy at my local ghetto Safeway.

Poor people are fat for the same reason they're poor: they have a lack of self-control and are not very good at making decisions.

Or if that sounds cruel, an alternative formulation: some people lack self-control and aren't very good at making decisions, and they tend to wind up being both fat and poor.



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