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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is, a lot of people *don’t* understand the calories in foods and how that relates to their own energy needs. I’m not talking about posters on this thread, just the general population. And then there are people that do understand, but have excessive hunger or other reasons for overeating.[/quote]

I don’t disagree that a lot of people don’t have a good grasp, but I don’t think it’s relevant to our current obesity situation. As a population we understand our energy needs better than ever before in human history and yet we are the fattest we’ve ever been. Most people understood nothing about calories in foods and their energy needs even 50 years ago, and they still were much less fat. The average person knew much much less about calories and energy expenditure and didn’t have the luxury of the information at their fingertips the way we do. People, for the most part, ate according to their hunger and that was enough for 90% of people’s weight to remain relatively stable for their whole life. Why they were able to do that and the people of today are not is something we don’t fully understand. [/quote]

I think this is a good question.  On the one hand, you could say people before had more wholesome, less processed food, almost all cooked at home.  Obviously the food scene has changed nowadays, people are busier and more stressed, more dual working parents, less home cooking, etc.  However, was the food they ate back then really any healthier?  I grew up in the 70s-80s on white bread sandwiches, hot dogs, spaghettios, kraft mac n cheese, lucky charms, etc.  There was less variety, no fancy salads at restaurants, no healthy ethnic cuisines, no air fryers, no berries at the store in winter, etc.  Nowadays, there are so many options to eat better.  People have more choices than ever before.  But maybe too much choice is overwhelming and there are so many fad diets and mixed messaging, the end result is people instinctually eat what tastes good and is easy. Which is often unhealthy junk food, fast food, etc.  It's possible to eat much better these days, but you have to make more effort to choose the right things.[/quote]
Food was so much less industrialized fifty years ago and the soil was so much less depleted. Just on soil depletion alone, food is far less nutritious than it was decades ago. The green revolution can grow calories, but they become less healthy as time goes on. This isn’t junk science, this is fact. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/

Nutrient deprived bodies are starved bodies. [/quote]

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