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I didn't say that all fat people ate junk food, and I didn't say that obese people shouldn't take medication if that could help. Obesity rate in the US didn't g

• pessimizer 4y ago
  No, what you said is that food marketing and the amount of sugars and fats in purchased foods are the cause of obesity. Before the 80s, food also was packed with fat and sugar, and advertised constantly. I subjectively feel that people saw far more food advertising in the 80s and before than they do now. And the government diet suggestions were to increase your consumption of carbs and reduce fats. edit: and people definitely drank far more Coke, and McDonald's meals were far less healthy.
  • yodsanklai 4y ago
    > what you said is that food marketing and the amount of sugars and fats in purchased foods are the cause of obesity. Yes, I mean the cause of the obesity epidemics we're witnessing. Not the reason why every single obese person is obese. My subjective feeling as a European traveling to the US is that it's extremely hard to eat healthy food there. In some states, it seems everybody is obese, including children, and I myself need to fight actively not to gain weight there. People there don't seem to realize that their diet is very unhealthy, and I'm not even sure they make the connection with their obesity. And this trend is happening in Europe too, with a few years lag behind the US. But this is only my conviction and I didn't find the data to back up my intuition. How do you explain why obesity rate went from 10% to 40% in a few decades?