The richer the fatter?

In a recent Wall Street Journal (AP) article on 3 May 2005, "Obesity Grows Among the Affluent", a study found that Americans who make more than $60,000 per year are getting fatter than low-income folks at a rate of three-to-one. According to Jennefer Robinson of the University of Iowa, lead researcher, "[this] underlines the whole complexity" of the obesity epidemic. Learn more!