Where are all the obese people on the sixties, what has changed!
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Cheap fast food and diet cola’s!!!
Lack of a actual livable wage, plus too many working two or more jobs to almost make ends meet!!!
Obesity is a Slow planned Genocide which makes money huge sums for the pharmaceutical industry and the never cure you medical industry!!!
Obesity is the biggest contributor to early death complications then add Covin19 you have a stew of death!!!
of-the-mountain
Level 9
May 19, 2020
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The addition of high fructose corn syrup has a very interesting correlation. I wish I could remember where I saw that chart. But you can pretty much tie it too availability of simple sugers.
Coming from a guy who is trying to stop drinking pop. Yay hipocracy.
Honorabledougn
Level 6
May 19, 2020
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@MissKathleen knowing I need to stop but never managed the self control.
I've been watching a lot of archival street and city footage on YouTube, some of it going back to the early 20th century. Speed corrected, digitally enhanced, and stabilized. Much of it is amazing; as close to a time machine as we are likely to see. Two things always strike me. First, people are formally dressed, just people swarming in cities going about their business. Men in suits, women in formal dresses. Secondly, people are thin. Some stout folk, but overwhelmingly people's body shapes and size are nowhere near obese. It's amazingly to me, compared to now. The food industry, the rampant use of food chemicals, fast food, absurd sized meals, and the rest in the post WW2 world have a lot to answer for. It started particularly from the 1960s with mass fast food and the food chemical industry. I think it is shocking. I expect current generations will die younger or live on medicines from a much earlier age than previously. The West is already in a state of decline. This will be another factor, in my opinion.
David1955
Level 8
May 19, 2020
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The medical sciences can not be understated. We are living much longer while feeding ourselves almost pure poison! The diet of the sixties simply lacked processed foods, added sugars of all kinds and, preservatives. We simply ate much more healthy until rock and roll and mega churches.(corrilation?)
I have put myself in what I call the farm or grandmas diet several times. Simply no processed foods, fresh farm goods and juices, itnis amazing how quickly it changes the body.
@DavidLaDeau well I agree but linking rock and roll and mega churches to poor diets? Surely you jest, sir? The 60s and beyond mobile lifestyle, more working mothers due to Capitalism's demands and women role change, less home cooked food, a Macdonalds on every corner, and marketing proclaiming quick plastic nutritionless food as the cool thing to eat... These are some of the reasons.
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