[Marxism] Cuban sanctions linked to obesity in americans

[Marvin Gandall]

I've always understood the obesity crisis to be attributable to the 
relatively lower cost and mass marketing of high-calorie junk and 
pre-packaged foods on time- and income-pressured American households, no?

Pat Costello writes:

> According to your logic the rising obesity rate in the U.S. is due to 
> growing
> ignorance on the part of an entire population. That does not seem like a 
> very marxist
> analysis!

> Greg McDonald:
>
> If corn syrup was replaced by cuban sugar in soft drinks there would
> still be an obesity problem. Sugar is just as bad as corn syrup with
> regard to empty calories. The letter is typical of americans who want
> to blame everyone except themselves for their physical problems. If
> americans were not so ignorantly addictive to empty calories, parked
> their cars and walked or biked more, there would be no obesity
> problem. Americans would do well to give up anything white for
> consumption, sugar, baked goods, etc. I get away with an occasional
> bagel and sugar in my coffee because I bike 150 miles a week. When it
> comes to their bodies (and much else), americans are about the most
> ignorant tribe on the planet.
>