obesity in America: who cares?

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 09:31 PM 7/23/2002 -0400, doug quoted:
>"Public Opinion and the Politics of America's Obesity Epidemic"
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>  obesity policy. We find that, contrary to the views of health
>  experts, most Americans are not seriously concerned with
>  obesity, express relatively low support for obesity-targeted
>  policies, and still view obesity as resulting from individual
>  failure rather than environmental or genetic sources.

Why is that surprising?  Obesity is mostly the problem of the underclass 
that feeds on junk food.  The elites graze on healthy foods and are mostly 
in good shape.

wojtek