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There's a bit of a perfect storm in that 1980-2000 frame. US soda consumption roughly doubled from 1975 to 2000. And of course as you mentioned, the US switche
by adventured 8y ago
There's a bit of a perfect storm in that 1980-2000 frame.
US soda consumption roughly doubled from 1975 to 2000. And of course as you mentioned, the US switched from sugar to high fructose. The US Government poured gasoline on the fire, with its industry collusion re sugar and its wildly screwed up food pyramids encouraging the over-consumption of carbs.
US sugar consumption also oddly skyrocketed from roughly 1980 to 2000. It went from ~80 pounds to ~110 pounds annually per capita in just under 20 years (after being relatively stable in a 20lb range the prior 60 years minus WW2).
The era of sugar cereal, sugar breakfast, large containers of soda everywhere, a large junk food boom, a big pizza & carb boom (rapid growth of pizza chains everywhere), continued explosion of low quality fast food chains. And last but not least, a huge increase in sedentary lifestyles.
- nyolfen 8y agoalso coincides with advertising deregulation, the advent of ads directed at children during the first reagan administration
- chrisco255 8y agoSource? Also coincides with the advent of cable television.
- ghaff 8y agoI remember plenty of commercials for cereal during my childhood which significantly predated the 1980s. The idea that kids didn't widely eat Frosted Flakes, Lucky Charms, Trix, etc. etc. is simply counterfactual. I I suspect there are many reasons for increased obesity including more fast food, more (large) soda consumption, less physical play activity, etc. Simply blaming advertising, farm subsidies, or whatever may make people feel that they've identified an external bogeyman but it's not as simple as that.
- nyolfen 8y agohttps://www.awn.com/animationworld/dr-toon-when-reagan-met-optimus-prime https://www.awn.com/animationworld/dr-toon-when-reagan-met-o...
- chrisco255 8y agoThis is an interesting take on an inevitable event in television history. Deregulation was bound to happen as the triopoly held by ABC, CBS, and NBC began to break up with the advent of cable TV. Furthermore I have very many fond memories of children's television in the 80s and 90s, and commercialized or not, like the Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Hot Wheels, Captain N, etc...it was very enjoyable to me and I would hate for some bureaucrat to dictate what was and wasn't acceptable. Markets do that just fine when choice is available. It would be even harder to enforce such a thing in the age of the internet.
- WalterBright 8y agoThe sugar cereal breakfast was common in the 1960s. The same ones as today were there in the 1960s - Captain Crunch, Fruit Loops, etc.