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The old adage was "genetics". If you had the right ones you could eat anything. Clearly 20-30 years is not enough for genetics to play in so what is going on?
by irjustin 7y ago
The old adage was "genetics". If you had the right ones you could eat anything.
Clearly 20-30 years is not enough for genetics to play in so what is going on? I know we blame fast food and sugars or possibly even fats a lot, but I feel like a lot of those have existed.
- zzzcpan 7y agoCould be more cars and computers that pushed sedentary life on people or plenty of other things too: more effective sugary food advertising on better screens, food producers figuring out that sugar is addictive and starting to put it into everything, or all of the above.
- astura 7y ago>Clearly 20-30 years is not enough for genetics to play in Unless it's some sort of epigenetic factors changing genetic expression? It's a possibility considering our animals are also getting fatter [1], including lab animals, whose diet is controlled and has not changed. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/its-not-just-us-even-american-animals-are-getting-fatter/310063/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/its-not...