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When was the last time you met somebody who only walked all thier life? Never rode a horse because only the rich could afford such things. When was the last ti
by bluGill 2mo ago
When was the last time you met somebody who only walked all thier life? Never rode a horse because only the rich could afford such things.
When was the last time you had no food? Starvation used to be a real problem. I'm not taking about running short at the end of the month, I'm talking about there isn't food for even the wealthy people.
Food today is safer than ever. You talk about poison, but that is pure lie, it might not be the best, but it isn't moldy because you have a fridge.
- arijun 2mo ago> You talk about poison, but that is pure lie I think it's fairly well accepted that the high obesity rates are caused by the shifting American diet. Yes it's more available than the 1950s (although I suspect not terribly so), but the effect it has on public health has been a nightmare.
- kevin_thibedeau 2mo agoYou can just as readily find correlation with behavioral changes linked to a sedentary lifestyle driven by a firehouse of entertainment that first became available with cable television. That doesn't satisfy the orthorexic cause, so isn't discussed much.
- bluGill 2mo agoShifting diet, but poison is the wrong term.
- SoftTalker 2mo agoFundamentally, obesity is caused by an excess of calories. The foods we eat today are more calorie-dense. Even an apple is sweeter and larger than it was in the 1950s. But bottom line people are obese because calories are cheaper and more readily available than they used to be.
- ks2048 2mo agoHe seems to focused on what happened in the last few decades. Your points seem to apply to a much longer time-scale.
- bluGill 2mo agoThe last few decades are much harder to quantify. I wouldn't want to go back to my youth.
- jimbokun 2mo agoSo better off today compared to 200 years ago.