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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of ideas out there but we actually don’t really know.

“ A given person, in 2006, eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was about 2.3 points higher. In other words, people today are about 10 percent heavier than people were in the 1980s, even if they follow the exact same diet and exercise plans.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/[/quote]

This. It could be the rise of obesogens - things like BPA and phthalates that are pervasive in the environment and in our bodies. You can thank the chemical lobby and money in politics for not protecting us from these poisons. U.S. women's breast milk contains more chemicals compared to European mothers. In Europe chemicals have to be proven safe instead of proven harmful like here. Some of these chemicals may cause epigenetic changes in metabolism across generations.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/13/pfas-forever-chemicals-breast-milk-us-study

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/magazine/toxic-breast-milk.html

When European scientists first saw the test results of American women, they thought there must be a mistake. Our levels were 10 to 100 times higher than those of women in Europe and Japan. [/quote]

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People are missing this. I’ve read several articles that underline that the way we eat really hasn’t changed much since about the 1980s— and yet people are still bigger. [/quote]

It has changed drastically, I can’t believe you can even claim it hasn’t.  Do you see what people eat and the portions? Have you seen what schools feed kids, now TWICE per day? As if giving them crap food at lunch wasn’t enough, let’s do breakfast now too.  And people do not move.  People have everything delivered, including groceries, takeout, and anything they could ever want.  They work from home and when not “working” are staring at their computer or phone in their free time. [/quote]

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