We ate refined carbs as staples when I was growing up in the 1970s and the huge majority of us were effortlessly slim to normal weight and had been for decades or longer, eating this way. This changed almost overnight in the mid- to late-1980s, when millions of people started blowing up like balloons and their Herculean efforts - trying all kinds of diets from low-calorie to low-fat to low-carb and many more - failed, only to have them all backfire over time, resulting in greater weight gain a few years later. Even the babies and the pets are fat now. It's more than just carbs driving the obesity epidemic.

I think our food supply, now pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and GMOs and laced with high fructose corn syrup where sugar used to be, is screwed up.

We ate refined carbs as staples when I was growing up in the 1970s and the huge majority of us were effortlessly slim to normal weight and had been for decades or longer, eating this way. This changed almost overnight in the mid- to late-1980s, when millions of people started blowing up like balloons and even their Herculean efforts - trying all kinds of diet from low-calorie to low-fat to low-carb and many more, only to have them all backfire over time, resulting in greater weight gain a few years later. Even the babies and the pets are fat now. It's more than just carbs driving the obesity epidemic.

I think our food supply, now pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and GMOs and laced with high fructose corn syrup where sugar used to be, is screwed up.