A fellow I know who emigrated to the USA from India when he was a teenager had a visit from his brother who had spent his life in India. His brother said something like this to him. "What a country! Even the poor people get to be fat!"
Apparently too easy an access to calories and lack of a need to burn them leads to obesity. Evolutionary reasons probably are the source of our overwhelming desire to overeat even when we do not need to store fat for times of want or famine.
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