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Explain Like I'm Five

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ELI5 How come in America we have a fat/obese epidemic while on the same hand we have kids going starving at the same time? Please 5 year old this for me, it has always bothered me. (lemmy.world)
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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There is more than one child in America. Some can't afford healthy food, so they become obese. Some cannot afford food, so they starve.

In fact, the theory that more than one person exists explains quite a lot of apparent contradictions like "People dislike Apple, but people also keep using iPhones". Well, some people dislike Apple, others keep using iPhones.