thank you! Anyone with any sense, knows that people with less money, less means to buy healthier options(because they usually cost more) are going to be a little heavier. McDonald's is cheaper than buying organic, natural foods or even just some groceries in the stores now days as pricing has gone up on some things. It just makes the writer look stupid, and is taking the approach to assume that most people must not have enough information to put this together already..As well, of course, some less fortunate families can't afford to help their kids with cars and the like, meaning that family, could be heavy, but not always the case. Appears to be a complete opinion or assumption and very little based on people as a whole

This study sounds stupid. Nowhere did it address siblings. There is no example of parents buying a car for thin child and not for fat child. It only states that overall parents bought cars for thin children. Those parents may have bought a car for their child even if they were obese. $ could have been spent better than this study.

good comment :) Unless you're a model, dancer or the like that focuses solely on appearance mostly--people don't get places in life based on weight alone. It's usually intelligence, education and mind set. You can't always judge a book by it's cover. So many people assume stuff about people as this article without even knowing the whole story behind the matter or the situation at all.