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>>14282121
>The middle class is way fatter than the poorest americans
It depends on exactly that: How you're deciding to slice it. For defining a middle class income:
>Middle-income households – those with an income that is two-thirds to double the U.S. median household income – had incomes ranging from about $42,000 to $125,000 in 2014
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/11/are-you-in-the-american-middle-class/
Which is about the same range using today's median income.
Pic related makes mention of people *living in states* under $45K for median income vs. those living states over $65K in finding its 35% vs 25% obesity percentage figures.
You could argue each state has its own set of class divisions relative to the different medians or you could argue the entire states themselves are more or less lower class on the whole as one issue. And another issue is how different it would be to have relatively little money in a relatively nice area vs. relatively strong earnings in a relatively run down area.
If poverty is influencing obesity (and I think most people at least concede a connection of some sort there, if not one as simple as "poor people are fatter"), it would make sense that the broader infrastructure you're living in might be as important to what counts as poverty than your personal income, if not even more important.