The rush at Kabul airport that was reported... The truth is it was AMERICANS AT A DALLAS COWBOY STADIUM!
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🧠 These people are stupid!
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Exactly. When I was growing up in the 1960s - 70s, we consumed all the things reported to cause obesity - sugar, refined carbs, soda, fast food, fatty meats, etc. - and almost everyone was pretty effortlessly slim to normal weight. Millions had desk jobs, cars, and most of the labor-saving appliances we have today. We watched TV or read or had big family dinners in our free time. We might do a few minutes of Jack La Lanne calisthenics in the morning, but only athletes joined a gym.
In the mid- to late 1980s, all these formerly slim Americans suddenly started ballooning up by the millions without consciously changing their eating or exercise habits. They then started dieting and exercising up a storm, making life uncomfortable to miserable, only to end up fatter than before after every round of unsustainable deprivation. "Eat less, exercise more" has been a miserable failure, backfiring for over 95% of dieters.
Newer studies show that things like blue light exposure and gut bacteria play a role in determining whether mice on the same diet and exercise program are fat or slim. We need to consider what changed in the mid-1980s and start thinking outside the box, looking for a systemic change that set up the obesity epidemic, get the poisons out of our food supply, and come up with better solutions than "Eat less, exercise more."