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.
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.
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.