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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (860275)	5/27/2015 6:35:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576835

Nope. We're saying they don't have to. .... poor Americans are more likely to be overweight than middle-class ones. Nearly half of poor adult women are overweight. And 84 percent of the poor say their families have "enough" food to eat; 13 percent say they "sometimes" do not have enough to eat. Only 3 percent say they "often" do not have enough to eat. The average consumption of protein, vitamins and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and in most cases is well above recommended norms. Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher-income children and have average protein intakes 100 percent above recommended levels. Indeed, most poor children today are supernourished, growing up, on average, to be one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier that the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in 1944. ....... http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/America-has-the-world-s-richest-poor-people-3064663.php