/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18583886
Per capita sugar consumption in the US peaked in the late 1990s, and has slowly declined since then. The average American today eats about as much sugar as the average American did in the mid 1980s. The same is true for most other food groups - meat, dairy, fruit, veg, consumption is all basically the same the 1980s as well. Grains have seen a moderate increase, and added fats/oils have seen a significant increase in consumption. The increase in calories from those two groups lines up almost perfectly with the rise in obesity.

>>18575296
I would like to point out that American per capita sugar consumption peaked more than 20 years ago, and has been slowly declining since then. So at least as far as excessive sugar consumption goes things are actually improving, and it is far easier to find low sugar/no sugar versions of food that used to always have sugar.

>>18355754
Per capita sugar consumption in the US peaked more than twenty years ago, and has been steadily declining since. The average American today eats as much sugar as people did in the mid 1980s. Added fats (usually cheap seed oils) are by far the the food group that has seen the largest increase in consumption over the last few decades.

>>18148958
The thing with sugar is that Americans are actually eating less of it than they did 20 years ago, about the same amount as they did in the 1980s, yet obesity keeps rising.

And if people cut back on the added fats & oils (by about half), and grains by 10 to 20 percent, they would not be ingesting a caloric surplus; they would basically be eating like people did in the 1970s & 80s. Probably not a perfect diet, but far better than the current one.

>>18124103
American per capita sugar consumption peaked over 20 years ago, and has been steadily going down. The average American today eats as much sugar as the average one did in the mid-1980s. Yet obesity keeps rising. So something else must be causing the extra calories - looking into the biggest increase over the last few decades has been from added fats & oils.

>>18114923
>>18115129
The whole "adding sugar to make up for low fat" thing is grossly overstated. The average American eats less sugar than they did 20 years ago, on par with what American's were eating in the mid 1980's, yet obesity keeps increasing. Almost all the additional calories being eaten are coming from added fats & oils.