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What happened in the 1980's so that
everyone, everywhere,
of all ages started getting fat?

>> No.15113182

>>15113180
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01322702

>> No.15113190
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>> No.15113191

Their obesity genes all turned on

>> No.15113207

Ironically, the introduction of low-fat foods.

>> No.15113363

My theory is depression leads to obesity. People start to feel empty inside so they turn to copes. So something may have increased in the 80's, maybe more of a empty consumer cpatalist culture or something else. Idk.

>> No.15113365

15113190
The food pyramid might have something to do with it too.

>> No.15113411

>>15113180
Food cooking oils and general substitutes for satured fat (butter/coconut oil vs. any other oil/substitute)

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>> No.15113434

>>15113432
Do you have the raw data? Hard to tell what they're eating more of.

>> No.15113436

>>15113432
so basically just a general trend of more calorie intake and a slight increase in fat and oil?

>> No.15113444

>>15113432
isn't even 2800 kcal/day pretty high? I usually see around 2000 - 2500 quoted for neede daily caloric intake. Or is it just not strictly cumulative data (i.e. cereals and grains contain sugar in the form of carbohydrates)?

>> No.15113451

>>15113180
Most Americans live incredibly sedentary lives, barely walking any further than the end of their driveway to pick up their mail on a given day.

>> No.15113512

>>15113434
>Do you have the raw data? Hard to tell what they're eating more of.

Looks to be more oils and fats from approximately 1980-1985, then from 1985 to 1990 an increase of cereals grains while oils and fats stabilize.

>> No.15113517

Another theory is consumer media. As consumer media got more and more dystopian, with less censorship, this could have caused both high levels of binge watching as well as depression in addition to existentialism. For instance someone watches the Terminator movie, then its "oh god we are all gonna die, whats the point of anything" bleak future nihilism, then obesity.

>> No.15113520

>>15113411
>>15113451
>1
this too

>> No.15113631

>>15113180
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/

Endocrine-disrupting environmental pollution which happens to be more concentrated in processed foods.

>> No.15114938

>>15113180
High calories corn syrup.

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>>15113180
People stopping smoking could be a major factor.

>> No.15114966

>>15114962
So smoking burns your calories huh...

>> No.15115028

>>15113363
>My theory is depression leads to obesity. People start to feel empty inside so they turn to copes.
This.
I don't know if I'm depressed because if I am I've been depressed so long it's my default state.
But delicious food is one of the very few joys I have in life. I don't really enjoy videogames or tv the same way anymore.
The only other time I've felt "wow this is good and fun" in recent memory was ironically lifting.

>> No.15115062

>>15113180
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#United_States

>> No.15115099

>>15114966
Smoking makes you less hungry. I don't buy that as the sole cause though. It's probably the endocrine disruptors and shitty sneed oils that were put into food by FDA regulation in the 80s and 90s.

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>>15113180
>What happened in the 1980's so that
>everyone, everywhere,
>of all ages started getting fat?
Plastics in our foods and food containers, and "vaccines".
Both disrupt your body's natural edocrine system.
Also a more sedentary lifestyle due to widespread availablity of cable TV starting in the 1980s and internet capable cell phones in the 2010s. Before that, you had maybe 8-10 TV channels to watch and a landline phone on a cord. People went outside more.

>> No.15115249 [DELETED] 

>>15114966
Nicotine suppresses apatite.

>> No.15115446

People opt to consume skim milk as it contains less calories than whole milk. But, it does not make you feel as full, and you are ready to consume again sooner, resulting in greater overall caloric intake.

>> No.15115471

Lack of lipolysis between meals resulting from the increased insulin sensitivity from eating PUFAs over saturated fats.

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I wonder who came in office and sold the country out to corporations by destroying regulations

>> No.15116176

>>15113190
/thread
make sure to sell a lot of product, and if possible, addict the consumer with it. same goes for food as with anything else, at that point we have gotten good enough in fattening up cattle so clearly, fattening up the people eating the cattle was the next step

>> No.15116194

>>15113180
Increasing mercury deficiency.

>> No.15116476

>>15114962
I've always felt like the effect on smoking on average population weight was really understated when people bring this topic up. Nicotine is a great appetite suppressant and can lead to people staying thinner. Granted we've all seen fat retards smoking cigs but they're usually older so the weight mitigation effect doesn't last forever..