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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/]Why Was It Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s?[/url]

[i]A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years ago are still fatter...[/i]

Something is definitely up with our food supply.

I watch my diet pretty stringently here in the States -- no grain, no starch, no sugar -- because otherwise I'd be thirty pounds heavier.

And then I go to Europe on holiday and eat ALLL the grains, starch, and sugar -- sometimes while on road trips, so no walking or real exercise -- and I come back a couple of pounds [i]lighter.[/i]

I don't know what, exactly, but there's something very, very bad in our food supply.[/quote]

Hmm. Food is certainly the issue. But quantity is very much part of the issue too. The problem with the Atlantic article is if the culprit is the food supply then how do you explain the millions of still thin and trim American women? They are exposed to the same foodstuffs. So what do they eat, or don't eat, that might explain the difference?

I am wondering if the flaw of the article is that focusing on the average misses the larger changes among demographics in the United States. It could be that heavier eating among some demographics is being offset by lower eating and greater exercises among others?

If food is the problem, then it's likely from stuffing themselves with the wrong kinds of food, processed and junk food, so it's clearly still the fault of the individual rather than the food itself.[b] There's gotta be a reason why the Whole Foods clientele looks healthier and trimmer than Walmart's clientele.....[/b][/quote]

This!!!!!!![/quote]

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