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This is true. There are also, though, other environmental factors that make it harder to maintain healthy weight in postindustrial countries than it was in the
by noduerme 4y ago
This is true. There are also, though, other environmental factors that make it harder to maintain healthy weight in postindustrial countries than it was in the past, even if you eat no processed foods, cap your calories and work out regularly. Pharmaceutical and industrial waste in the water supply, Roundup in the grain supply, pesticides, hormones in the meat. Personally I'm swayed by the argument that these are at the root of other issues too, like gluten intolerance.
I'm all for encouraging people to eat healthier but some of this is beyond what an average person can control unless you grow your own food and drink from your own well.
- nu11ptr 4y agoAgreed, my suspicion is our problems are 'multi-causal' which is why it makes it so difficult to pin it down to just one thing.
- worldshit 4y ago> unless you grow your own food and drink from your own well there was a post a few days ago about Australia: home-farmed eggs have 40x more lead than the industrial ones, because of unchecked pollution in non-agricultural areas...
- dont__panic 4y agoI was under the impression that that "40x" argument" largely speaks to pollution in cities and suburbs. Curious how the rural/urban breakdown relates to that number.