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You could easily verify that hypothesis with statistical analysis of obesity amongst people of varying levels of employment/busyness and education. Are you (or anyone here) aware of any such studies?


ATUS data is available that can provide a partial answer to this.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11.htm

This data can answer the question "are poor people busy in general". (The answer is no.) But it can't answer the question "are poor obese people busy", since it doesn't allow you to slice by both busyness and obesity jointly.




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