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[quote=Anonymous]To the PP who asked what is causing the obesity epidemic, if it isn't that we've all gotten gluttonous and slothful, since obviously our genes haven't changed: our intake of carbs changed, for the most part. You can map the rise of the obesity epidemic against 1) the advice to eat low fat, high carb starting in the early eighties, and 2) the beginning of sugars being added to EVERYTHING. The theory here is that sugar and swiftly digested carbs like flour drive the release of insulin, and insulin drives the hoarding of calories as fat. There is really, really good evidence that this is so - not just the circumstancial stuff above, which proves nothing. But I think our culture is so primed to make a sin of being fat that people in their hearts want the theory that being fat is purely caused by overeating to be true, and they reject evidence that it is not. If overeating and not moving enough is the cause of being fat, than everyone who overeats and doesn't move enough should be fat. That is how causality works. But they aren't. Lots of skinny people eat horribly and are sedentary. There is more to the story, and we do all people, fat and skinny, a horrible disservice by trying to make it about the sin of gluttony. [/quote]

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