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Thin Part 2

from Check Your Stereo by Steve White

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One of the finger-pointing crowd? Think fat people are lacking in personal responsibility? Did you ever stop to wonder why being fat in poor countries is seen as indication of your wealth, but in your modern western democracy it's the own-everything crowd that are skinny and healthy looking and it's your less well off working (and unemployed) types who are wobbly reality TV fodder?

Well there's some evidence to suggest that all that low-level anxiety you've got (you know, another year with no pay rise and stuff getting dearer, tabloid tales of the country being overrun by baby-eating foreigners and so on) affects your cortisol metabolism, which affects your body composition amongst other things. Funny how rich people don't have the same worries as the rest of us.

But more than that. Wilkinson and Pickett in their ground-breaking book The Spirit Level show a remarkable correlation between a society's obesity problems and it's basic inequality, and let's face it we're getting more and more unequal.

So next time you want to rant about fat people being a drain on society and they should know better, stow the attitude. It's not a diet we need, it's a revolution. As Bob Crow taught us, what's best for all of us is a society that's more equaller.

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Stress makes you fat
It's as simple as that
A little cortisol is good for you
Too much and you'll start to put on a few
It's the thing that they want to keep quiet
It ain't just about your diet

What kind of a world do we live in
Where poor people are fat and rich people are thin?
What kind of a world do we live in
Where poor people are fat and rich people are thin?
It's like the world is turned upside down
It's time to turn it the right way around
What kind of a world do we live in
Where poor people are fat and rich people are thin?

Compare the banker to the man in the street
It ain't just about what they eat
Cos one of 'em's got money
The other one's got worry
And when your wages go down
That's when you put on the pounds

The correlation's too good to ignore
Between the gap between the rich and the poor
And the incidence of obesity
It's about inequality
Read the Spirit Level then you'll know
Which way we gotta go

It's not genetic
Or the next generation would be the same
It's not behavioural
That's just your bosses mind game
It's a chemical reaction that happens in your body
Based on your position in the social hierarchy
An equal society
Has less obesity

So walk hand in hand with me
Straight out of the KFC
And we'll stand up to inequality
Make the world a better place
For you and me

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from Check Your Stereo, released August 20, 2015

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