As late as the mid-1980s, most people were pretty effortlessly slim to normal weight, eating and drinking all the things that are demonized today - sugar, bread, rice, fat, meat, fast food, soda, alcohol.
None of the adults I knew growing up went to the gym. That was for athletes. Many had desk jobs, drove everywhere, watched TV, read, and had dinner parties for fun and relaxation. And they were effortlessly normal weight. Most dieters were trying to lose 5-10 pounds, not 50-100. Starting in the mid-1980s, people started blowing up by the millions, started dieting, joining gyms, struggling, suffering, and just kept getting fatter. Something systemic changed.
Stress. People talk about this that and the other but the biggest killer we have today is stress. Its the precusor to all other diseases. Happy people are healthy people. You'd be surprised how many obese people eat the way they do because of stress.
Stress is a root factor for sure, but many of those people also dealt with very high stress levels.
I suppose that you could argue that when we are always connected to mainstream and social media, there is the perpetual stress that comes from that.
But I don't know, I think microplastics and things like glyphosate tear down and weaken our bodies.
There are legitimately instances where very active people who eat a reasonable diet and can't drop their weight or otherwise reduce their fat. This is a phenomenon that is not actually normal, but is becoming a common occurrence.
If you walk 10000 steps a day at a brisk pace and eat only a normal diet of 1600-~2500 calories a day (you should always have caloric swings when losing weight which keeps your body from thinking it's starving) then you should be physically incapable of reaching 300 pounds. This used to be the case.
As was said above, more strenuous exercise was considered for the athletic.
Hormones introduced into the food chain that were used e.g., to plump up chickens and other animals (to yield more profitable #s of meat per chicken), also act to fatten humans.
The enormously fat grocery store chicken legs, thighs, etc. seen today, did not used to be typical.
... With greedy Big Pharma/Big Medicine also lying in wait to profit off of the increase in degenerative diseases.
As late as the mid-1980s, most people were pretty effortlessly slim to normal weight, eating and drinking all the things that are demonized today - sugar, bread, rice, fat, meat, fast food, soda, alcohol.
None of the adults I knew growing up went to the gym. That was for athletes. Many had desk jobs, drove everywhere, watched TV, read, and had dinner parties for fun and relaxation. And they were effortlessly normal weight. Most dieters were trying to lose 5-10 pounds, not 50-100. Starting in the mid-1980s, people started blowing up by the millions, started dieting, joining gyms, struggling, suffering, and just kept getting fatter. Something systemic changed.
Stress. People talk about this that and the other but the biggest killer we have today is stress. Its the precusor to all other diseases. Happy people are healthy people. You'd be surprised how many obese people eat the way they do because of stress.
Stress is a root factor for sure, but many of those people also dealt with very high stress levels.
I suppose that you could argue that when we are always connected to mainstream and social media, there is the perpetual stress that comes from that.
But I don't know, I think microplastics and things like glyphosate tear down and weaken our bodies.
There are legitimately instances where very active people who eat a reasonable diet and can't drop their weight or otherwise reduce their fat. This is a phenomenon that is not actually normal, but is becoming a common occurrence.
If you walk 10000 steps a day at a brisk pace and eat only a normal diet of 1600-~2500 calories a day (you should always have caloric swings when losing weight which keeps your body from thinking it's starving) then you should be physically incapable of reaching 300 pounds. This used to be the case.
As was said above, more strenuous exercise was considered for the athletic.
Things have definitely changed beyond stress too.
Hormones introduced into the food chain that were used e.g., to plump up chickens and other animals (to yield more profitable #s of meat per chicken), also act to fatten humans.
The enormously fat grocery store chicken legs, thighs, etc. seen today, did not used to be typical.
... With greedy Big Pharma/Big Medicine also lying in wait to profit off of the increase in degenerative diseases.