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The average American in the 50s consumed 100g of sucrose per day. Where was the obesity then? Where was the diabetes? They consumed close to 4000 kcal daily, wi

The average American in the 50s consumed 100g of sucrose per day. Where was the obesity then? Where was the diabetes? They consumed close to 4000 kcal daily, without going to the gym. Most men had sedentary, office jobs. It is ridiculous to completely eliminate micro or macronutrients in your life. Your body would not have the ability to convert glucose into ATP if you weren’t supposed to consume sucrose.

mckn1ght 2y ago
Source on the average American consuming 200% of their RDV of sugar and kcal in the 50s? Because the sources I find fall in the low 2000 range for US per capita kcal consumption in the mid 20th century to the mid 2000s in the 21st century [0] and high 2000s average kcal consumption in 60’s to the mid 3000s by 2017 [1], which is an alarming amount if that’s a sedentary person. And regardless of the validity of your claim, we know the effects of a diet like that. The human body did not evolve with such a diet available, nor with the aisles of cereals, chips, cookies, cakes and sodas like have been available in the last 50ish years in stores. Ritz crackers ingredients by order of amount: flour, palm oil, sugar… Crackers do not need sugar, these aren’t really crackers. We’re feeding ourselves shit. The effects of poor diet compound over generations as well. Both in terms of: someone with a poor diet is likely to teach their children poorly, who could go on to make worse decisions earlier in their life and thus over a longer amount of absolute time, and also could damage the DNA and chromosomes they’re passing along [2], and then again lead to poor embryonic and fetal development [3]. Where was the diabetes? It was walking behind us all along [4]. [0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/12/13/whats-on-your-table-how-americas-diet-has-changed-over-the-decades/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/12/13/whats-on-... [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/american-calorie-intake-last-52-years-diet-food-eating-increase-science-2017-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/american-calorie-intake-last... [2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241941/ [3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8805510/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8805510/ [4]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17389135/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17389135/

mckn1ght 2y ago

Source on the average American consuming 200% of their RDV of sugar and kcal in the 50s? Because the sources I find fall in the low 2000 range for US per capita kcal consumption in the mid 20th century to the mid 2000s in the 21st century [0] and high 2000s average kcal consumption in 60’s to the mid 3000s by 2017 [1], which is an alarming amount if that’s a sedentary person. And regardless of the validity of your claim, we know the effects of a diet like that. The human body did not evolve with such a diet available, nor with the aisles of cereals, chips, cookies, cakes and sodas like have been available in the last 50ish years in stores. Ritz crackers ingredients by order of amount: flour, palm oil, sugar… Crackers do not need sugar, these aren’t really crackers. We’re feeding ourselves shit. The effects of poor diet compound over generations as well. Both in terms of: someone with a poor diet is likely to teach their children poorly, who could go on to make worse decisions earlier in their life and thus over a longer amount of absolute time, and also could damage the DNA and chromosomes they’re passing along [2], and then again lead to poor embryonic and fetal development [3]. Where was the diabetes? It was walking behind us all along [4]. [0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/12/13/whats-on-your-table-how-americas-diet-has-changed-over-the-decades/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/12/13/whats-on-... [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/american-calorie-intake-last-52-years-diet-food-eating-increase-science-2017-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/american-calorie-intake-last... [2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241941/ [3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8805510/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8805510/ [4]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17389135/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17389135/