One-Third of U.S. Homeless Population Is Obese: Study

I agreed without the above comments that there are additional mitigating circumstances that contributes. While not homeless, but 1 to 2 steps away and obese, let me tell you the unrelenting, chronic stress of survival isn't, no pun intended, a huge contributing factor fueled in part by lack of accesibility to larger stores to make my $84 per month food stamp stretch.

I clip coupons, watch for sales, used to have a garden, etc. But when you have to decide between buying a roll of toliet paper or soap or buying fresh brocolli then you do the math.

And I’m not homeless but am so 62 years old, unemployed, disable woman. Lets be really who will hire me, let alone compounding it without no address? This country's solution tends to be punish, punish & if that don’t work, more punishment. The report citing the correlation of lack of sleep, chronic stress, poverty & obesity is spot on, but who really going to care let along truly act on it? People for the most part don ’t want to know, they just don’t want it happening or near them. Part of the "if it ain ’t happening to me, it ain ’t happening "mentality.ii

iiammoon of LA 11:11AM May 20, 2012