An article  on the website of the American Heart Association opens with this: Once considered primarily a problem of the poor, obesity is growing fastest in among those making more than $60,000 a year, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's 45th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. At first sight this sentence may not appear particularly remarkable, but the implication that there exists a country where obesity is the bane of the poor is truly astonishing by all historical standards. All throughout history, the poor lived in almost continual fear of starvation and most suffered from some form of malnutrition. This still holds true for most of the world. Just ask the poor in Africa, India, China, Russia, Cuba and most other countries on the globe. You can even ask their middle classes who, for the most part, will tell you that they do not have excess food to throw around. The situation is obviously different in...(Read Full Post)