being poor makes you unhealthy. being fat is a side effect of being unhealthy. People born poor (to no fault of there own) in countries with really high wealth inequalities have lower life expectancies then poor people born in poor countries.
January 2006, a report into poverty in
The Scotsmannewspaper
[4] stated that "a child born in Calton... is three times as likely to suffer
heart disease, four times as likely to be hospitalised and ten times as likely to grow up in a workless household than a child in the city's prosperous western
suburbs". Calton has the lowest male
life expectancy in Scotland. A
BBC Scotland news report on 13 February 2006 pointed out that, partially due to poor diet, crime,
alcohol and
drug abuse, life expectancy in Calton is lower than in some areas of
Iraq or the
Gaza Strip.
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