What happened in the 80s?
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DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Every fat person on earth already knows that too much food makes you fat.
Yet somehow, even armed with this knowledge, we’re all fat.
Curious.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 month ago
matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
A combination of sugar subsidies, market penetration of transformed food while the food industry figured they could make their customers sugar-addict, the start of GDP and minimum salary drifting away from each other, meaning poor households no longer able to afford quality food, and running through 2 or 3 jobs doesn’t leave you much time to cook.
So, in a summary: that’s completely a personal responsibility issue.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Isn’t the correct answer that glucose-fructose syrup got subsidised?? (I might have my history wrong)
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, the “low fat” fitness craze started and manufacturers started replacing fat with sugar.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes. Well that and sugar tariffs combined.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And the long trend of decreasing home cooking really gained steam. Homemade food can be delicious, but it is rarely hypersatiable. It’s also more likely to contain things like vegetables (though I’ll admit, I don’t use enough in my household, my wife hates my “could eat it nonstop” veggie and I’m allergic to hers).
We’ve also increasingly been doing jobs that don’t fulfill a meaningful portion of physical fitness, and as such we’re increasingly underexercised
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A significant part of it is the stuff they put in our food.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s funny how you never visualise the person on an internet forum as fat, but some of the people typing here are fat.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
We tens to visualise the people typing like us. At least, I do
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So that’s why I see everybody as fat as fuck and tipping a fedora to me. Good to know.
Lilac@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Ok, I do have trouble visualising you as an 18 year old girl 🤣
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Most.