[CrayZee]

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Sorry, but the "growing segment of people" are the obese/overweight ones. No pun intended...

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That was mostly a statement of the fashion sense of the affluent. It's very hip to be organic and to look health conscious. I live in the the NW and observe that the upper middle class+ seem to like to shop regularly at pricier shops like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, etc.

But yeah, people are getting larger.

Usually the affluent strongly influence fashion, so you see stuff trickling down the fashion stream (e.g., Wal-Mart carrying organic foods). Hopefully, being more healthy will be hip and stick where McDLT's not so much.

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No, the populous isn't having trouble battling the genes.

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So you disagree that food was once hard to obtain, and still is for much or most of the world's population? We are built to opportunistically eat, crap, sleep, and procreate from an evolutionary standpoint.

But we are also suckers for attractive marketing campaigns and no match for today's use of mathematical statisticians, psychologists, etc. analyzing marketing data honing these campaigns.