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Originally Posted by V
I'd love to see some stats of the long-term history of a populace's BMI over time. If this is a biology thing, we shouldn't be getting fatter as a population, but it sure doesn't look like that's the case.
I pretty much blame it all on the food we have available these days. So much oversugared, process garbage. We don't have a chance.
Also, seems to me if you stop drinking your calories you'll have a hard time eating enough food to reach your caloric limits. Oversimplification, sure, but if people stuck to that one rule I think they'd be amazed at what they see, on average.
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Well there are a bunch of docs you guys could check out if anyone is interested. But short version, we made a huge mistake in the late 80s with fat, the low fat, no fat movement was a horrible horrible mistake. This started us down the road with sugar and sweeteners taking over where fat was found in foods.
We are more sedentary, certainly, but the biggest culprits of the growing obesity rates world wide, are sugar, processed foods, and people with less free time to cook good meals. We have turned in to fast food nations, where quick food is all we have energy to do anymore, people are overworked, over-stressed, and quick and easy food which is often very bad for you becomes routine.
I HIGHLY recommend taking a look at this terrific doc on sugar and the changes in our food supply that are leading to more horrible outcomes. I think sugar will become the next big tobacco once people see the harm of what has been happening, Yoni Friedhoff was invited recently to speak at a Pepsi and Coke sponsored summit with Health Canada to discuss how to tackle obesity, their answer is move more dummy! Yoni loathes health Canada and regularly takes them to task.
If you guys can find a way to see this, its absolutely eye opening on the state of our food supply and the amount sugar has been incorporated in to more and more foods, many where you least suspect it.