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Poincaré-type Inequality

In the Lieb's paper "On the lowest eigenvalue of the Laplacian for the intersection of two domains" we found the following remark: Let $u\in L_{loc}^1(\mathbb{R}^N)$ $\nabla u \in L^{p}$ and $\|\nabla u\|_{p} \leq 1 .$ Set $k=1+\|u\|_{p}^{-p}\left(\text { for }\|u\|_{p} \leq \infty\right)$. Let $B_{x}$ denote the unitary ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$ centered at $x$ with $\beta_x$ the characteristic function. Clearly there is some $x$ such that \begin{equation}\label{lb}\int|\nabla u|^{p} \beta_{x}<k \int|u|^{p} \beta_{x}.\end{equation}

I can't see why the inequality \eqref{lb} above is true.