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Noticed the same exact thing when I go to Europe, vs. America I think the article mostly applies to America. American food is just fattening

• danlindley 11y ago
  The study factored in the nutritional value of the food, so your comment seems counter to their findings. "...eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was about 2.3 points higher."
  • tnorthcutt 11y ago
    The study factored in the nutritional value of the food The study factored in the macronutrients, but that's not all that matters when it comes to food.
  • emp_zealoth 11y ago
    Except the calories are obsolete (meaningless) A lot of the food now is higly processed, ground to microns, resulting in way higher "usable engergy" that can be extracted. Especially the "cheap" food - full of awful sugars, stabilised fats or other junk, gelatine, mechanically abused.
    • pflanze 11y ago
      Your answer may look unscientific (hand-wavy, with the word "meaningless" being too strong, that's how I explain the downvotes), but I guess if eating is (partially) feeding gut bacteria, then the micro structure of the food could well matter a lot with regards of which kinds of bacteria it promotes and which it weakens, and hence change the composition of the biome.
  • navaati 11y ago
    And this is pure bullshit. Do you eat macronutrients, or do you eat food ? If everyone then and now was eating Soylent, yeah, it may have some sense.