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> Look at any old cookbook … >not a cultural shift I think your statements are in conflict. There have been enormous shifts in food production and consumptio
by anonuser123456 3y ago
> Look at any old cookbook
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>not a cultural shift
I think your statements are in conflict. There have been enormous shifts in food production and consumption over the last few generations.
- hannasanarion 3y agoRead it again. The statements are not in conflict because the culture reacted to the increasing obesity, not the other way around. If modern cookbooks had more fattening recipes, then I would be wrong and obesity would be explainable by culture, but they don't. Modern cookbooks are leaner than old cookbooks. In decades and centuries prior to the 1980s people ate more sweets and fats, not less. Modern cookbooks have leaner recipes because obesity is a problem now. Obesity is not a problem now because cookbooks have leaner recipes (how would that even work?)
- anonuser123456 3y agoPeople don’t use cookbooks. They go to McDonnalds.
- hannasanarion 3y agoDo you not see how that's circular? Cookbooks in the old days were just as calorie dense as McDonalds is today. People used to eat tons of sugar and butter in everything, including things that were home cooked or marketed as healthy. Having lots of high-calorie foods available has never caused people to get fat until recently, when it suddenly started happening all over the world all at once, especially to people who work with heavy machinery. You can't just blame McDonalds for that.