Because we can spend 1$ and get 400-1200 kcals out of a vending machine (that takes 10-30 seconds to consume), while we sit at a desk all day and evening, inste

Because we can spend 1$ and get 400-1200 kcals out of a vending machine (that takes 10-30 seconds to consume), while we sit at a desk all day and evening, instead of having to plant/weed/harvest/process our food in a field. he says as he eats candy We have ridiculously kcal dense food immediately available while we also have, on average, extremely sedentary lives. I mean, looking at: - Starbucks menu you can get a beverage that comes in at 500 kcals without even getting fancy. - Symphony milk chocolate bar: 149 kcals/ounce. - White Castle chicken sandwich (about half the size of a deck of cards) 350 kcals - Wendy's Baconator 950 kcals - McDonald's double bacon smokehouse burger on artisan roll 1130 kcals (most of McDonald's value meals can actually easily get into the 1000+ kcal range without any special modifications) - Burger King Whopper 660 kcals - 32 ounce Coke 370 kcals - Papa Johns sausage pizza 260-410 kcals a slice (depending on the pizza size) We can get insane amounts of kcals, with relative ease, in dense little packages while being largely inactive. Edit: since this was downvoted to -2, HN is throttling my ability to reply to the individual that replied to me, in regards to 'first world countries': https://obesity.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=006032 https://obesity.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0060... Obesity percentages: US 36.2%, NZ 30.8%, CA 29.4%, AU 29%, UK 27.8% all 'first world countries' out of the top 10 and if you look at the complete list the bulk of the 'first world' countries, where convenience foods/fast foods are readily available, are above 20% obesity.