Iwanderandiamlost t1_j882yu1 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 9:49 AM

I think eating a shitton of processed foods is linked to rise in obesity, but who am i to say that

-Celtic-Warrior- t1_j88mif4 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 1:50 PM

undoubtedly, but shovelling three times as much food down their gullet and doing a third of the exercise, compared to the society of the post WW2 decade when Western society ws said to be at its healthiest, dietarily speaking, is also a huge contributor.

We have become a lazier society than our grandparents time.

Flushles t1_j88qpuq wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:26 PM

I agree with this in general but I think lazy is the wrong descriptor.

I usually point at cities and the effects cars have had on shaping them, if there's nice convenient places to walk or ride a bicycle people will choose to do that (generally) but most US cities are terrible places to walk and worse places to ride a bicycle, everthing is too far to walk and even if there's a nice sidewalk there's no trees because of required "clear zones" on roads.

-Celtic-Warrior- t1_j89v79v wrote on February 12, 2023 at 7:08 PM

I have never been to America, but I hear the space you have there is vast.

in Britain, we have 1/6th of the American population, crammed into 1/56th of your land mass, so we still have almost all of our population within a 4 hour drive of one another. in the UK, I'd definitely say it was different to the states, purely because our cities are so much more compact that we can get mostly everything we need within walking distance of our homes, but people just refuse to walk a couple of miles if they can drive there instead, and when it gets to the stage where they're driving to the fish and chip shop at the bottom of the road, it's hard to avoid concluding laziness is endemic here. the UK also have the fattest population in Europe, which Is odd because we are some of the most densely populated cities in Europe.

89LeBaron t1_j88ey5n wrote on February 12, 2023 at 12:32 PM

Someone who can only go on the specific data point that people were skinnier as a whole before processed foods came along.

midnight_station t1_j88jnoy wrote on February 12, 2023 at 1:22 PM

Considering there are multitudes of studies, doctors, and scientists concerned about the obesity epidemic; its safe to say people were skinnier before processed foods.