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Study: Walmart and other major retailers are ‘making us fat’
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By Christina Sarich | Natural Society
While we can’t blame any one company for our burgeoning waistlines, a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that Big Box stores like Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club, as well as the prevalence of restaurants, may be a huge contributing factor to American’s weight gain.
The group of economists who conducted the study suggest that with processed food being cheaper and more readily available (at least when bought from mega stores like Walmart), we simply eat more of it. Co-author Charles Courtemanche, a health economist at Georgia State University, thinks that, “at least a sizable portion of the rise in obesity can be characterized as responses to economic incentives.” But that initial assumption can be deceiving.
It is more likely the kinds of cheap food that are available which are making us sick and fat.
The study goes on to point out that restaurants and Big Box stores are extremely effective at delivering convenience and junk foods which are loaded with fat. (These foods also happened to be loaded with other toxic products like MSG, GMOs, and high-fructose corn syrup which all have also been linked with higher obesity rates.)
Comparing data compiled from more than two dozen different economic and demographic factors, the researchers found that the density of restaurants and large-scale food retailers in particular areas was a major factor between 1990 and 2010 in the nationwide rise of obesity and BMI (body mass index) which measures weight against an individual’s height. The researchers found that there were far more obese people (those who were more than 50% overweight) in these Big Box and restaurant-dense areas.
Read full report via Natural Society.
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