When I did my community quality of life projects, I can assure you poor
people were not concerned about their weight.  They were concerned about
providing their children with food, clothing, and a chance in life.  They
were also concerned with stigmatization and degrading attitudes towards
them by those who were not poor.

http://www.utoronto.ca/qol/community.htm

The emphasis on obesity is being shaped by the priviliged professional
community for whom this emphasis is meeting their own interests and needs
not the needs of the poor. More money, more finding, more research, more
prestige, and more trips to exotic places for conferences.

 For the poor, shortened lives of misery may seem like a good way to go.

Pat Caponi said "Poverty is a life sentence with no chance of parole."

Similarly, a colleague once said to me:
"Epidemiologists care about how long people live.  Social scientists care
about what their lives are like while they are alive!"

dr

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