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I don't think we share enough common ground to have any further useful conversation about this.

• asveikau 8y ago
  OK. I will ask this of you though. I don't know if you are in the US to witness this or somewhere else. But next time you are in a crowded restaurant where all the portions are in the thousands of calories.. Look around you at all the people wolfing it down. And maybe ask: how many of these people do this regularly? How much exercise do they get to balance it out? How did these people get into this cycle, binging day after day? How irritated would they get if you took it away from them? Is it their fault, or are they stuck in some kind of bad loop? Was that cycle entered into well informed or something else? Losing 100 lbs caused me to think about this, and the answers are very depressing. Even for any given meal or ingredient, there has been a change. Look at videos of 70s and 80s America, the average person is way more fit. Or, to take a random example, I re-read the novel "Cannery Row" a few years ago. Now, it's fiction, though based on some real people. It takes place in the first half of the 20th century, and one character is said to drive regularly from Monterey to Los Angeles, a sedentary activity, stopping several times for burgers. Not once does it say he was overweight, nor do I think the real person he was based on was. Could it be that a 1940s burger was better for you than a burger today?