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Obesity and Inequality.(International Edition; SOCIOLOGY)(Brief article)
Byline: William Underhill
What makes Americans so fat? Don't blame the doughnuts. That extra heft could be symptomatic of a malaise prevalent in all the world's least equal societies. According to "The Spirit Level," a new book by British academics Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, a slew of social woes--from drug abuse to obesity and mental illness--can be tied directly to the width of a nation's income gap.
The evidence for the link is compelling. Obesity is six times more common in America, where the wealth gap is among the highest in the developed world, than in Japan at the opposite end of the inequality scale. And teenage birthrates in Britain are at least five times higher than in the more egalitarian Netherlands.
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