I sit somewhere in the 8th-13th percentile according to DQYDJ’s calculators for weight distribution. So I’m a thin guy. The only men thinner than me are usually

I sit somewhere in the 8th-13th percentile according to DQYDJ’s calculators for weight distribution. So I’m a thin guy. The only men thinner than me are usually lanky teenagers growing into their bodies still. I’m also muscular and generally fit with a body fat percentage of about 13.3%. BMI of 21.8, no I’m no longer much of the athlete’s build I once was, but I’m holding on quite well. The data is out of date by a few years now, but I assume Americans have only gotten larger. Not thinner. I don’t exercise, I used to run often, but now I’m too busy running my firm and renovating a house that leaves me doing enough bodily work I’m not missing out. So my biggest variable is eating and at my weight any singular deviation from proper eating means that I gain weight fast. I weigh in daily. The article tells us things we’ve known I’m sure at least since the 70s so there aren’t any grand revelations here. It’s just that people suck at eating properly. And frankly, eating well is boring. That’s why people fail to do it. Most people I know already can’t cook, and if you have no culinary articulation nor come from a racial background of low weight individuals you’re fighting both a dietary and cultural problem at the same time. I noticed my weight gain in my 20s, and so I’ve always tracked it since then. My observations are that Americans eating whole foods get as close as possible to replicating other foreign cultures who are naturally thin peoples. Asians in particular come to mind. The inherent issue with most processed foods just simply that most processes combine ingredients that are high in calories, or refine ingredients into densities that mean you’re eating more simply because the process condenses them. That’s it. Processed foods make you eat more food. If you juiced one orange, you’d barely have any juice. If you ate one orange you’d receive all of the fiber of the fruit itself as well. In America, we just don’t have many recipes or cultural dishes that help you lose weight. But in Asian cultures, I can think of dish after dish that are whole ingredients and none of them are refined. To lose weight, you have to learn how to eat. I see it the same way you learn how to not smoke or drink. It’s just that junk food and sugar are so prevalent and we don’t assign it the same social stigma that people are such poor eaters.