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7:45 am
November 11, 2009


Rok Spruk

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David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen explored the relationship between minimum wage rate in the U.S and body weight (link):

“Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially “fast food”, has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several decades. Because the real minimum wage in the United States has declined by as much as half over 1968-2007 and because minimum wage labor is a major contributor to the cost of food away from home we hypothesized that changes in the minimum wage would be associated with changes in bodyweight over this period. To examine this, we use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System from 1984-2006 to test whether variation in the real minimum wage was associated with changes in body mass index (BMI). We also examine whether this association varied by gender, education and income, and used quantile regression to test whether the association varied over the BMI distribution. We also estimate the fraction of the increase in BMI since 1970 attributable to minimum wage declines. We find that a $1 decrease in the real minimum wage was associated with a 0.06 increase in BMI. This relationship was significant across gender and income groups and largest among the highest percentiles of the BMI distribution. Real minimum wage decreases can explain 10% of the change in BMI since 1970. We conclude that the declining real minimum wage rates has contributed to the increasing rate of overweight and obesity in the United States. Studies to clarify the mechanism by which minimum wages may affect obesity might help determine appropriate policy responses.”


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2:35 pm
May 24, 2010


atul320120

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Post edited 2:36 pm – May 24, 2010 by atul320120


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2:58 am
June 9, 2010


byronlewis

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The connection between low incomes and obesity is obvious: dyscalculia.

People who can't count the amount of money they are being cheated out of by their exploiting capitalist agendist overlords can't count calories.


 

 


3:29 am
February 1, 2011


shaunna75

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This is really sad because people have been eating more junk food which causes them obesity because of the lack of knowledge on how to eat healthy and junk food is more available in the market and affordable too. Actually people can still eat healthy if they would just try to plant their own vegetable and fruits right in their own garden. The goverment should put a program for healthy eating and living a healthy life.

4:17 am
February 17, 2011


abisum

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byronlewis said:

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The connection between low incomes and obesity is obvious: dyscalculia.

People who can't count the amount of money they are being cheated out of by their exploiting capitalist agendist overlords can't count calories.


Funny comment but makes sense. Decreasing minimum wage can be depressing. And what better cure to depression than eating?


 

 



10:02 am
March 6, 2012


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