But this study is supposed to be correcting for calorie intake and exercise between the two time periods being discussed, yes? So is it just that more calories are being taken in in the form of sugar/hfcs, as opposed to other forms? And then we’re back to the “types of calories taken in” discussion again.
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Everyone here with a chip on their shoulder and an opinion knows more than the people doing the study (which they won’t bother to read anyway).
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That kinda made me wonder, wouldn’t the simplest and most likely explanation be that the data set for one or both periods is incorrect/incomplete? What about lead poisoning from gas? Today’s 20 somethings were never exposed. So many differences. So many outside factors.
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Jee cua dan puna puna doptkee bu Hancicle
#HoHoHo.
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Through the 70s and 80s, public K-12 schools and universities had much lower presence of junk food, especially unsupervised vending machines, on campuses. The junk food manufacturers introduced incentives to the schools and got the junk machines in there with long term contractual obligations. It took a long time to get them out. So on that alone, one generation has a significantly different dietary history than the other which could have caused changes to gut bacteria. (side note, or not? Boing Boing’s publisher uses Coke to clean rusty tools). I don’t like the degree to which the pendulum has swung now where the very schools that took this blood money are invoicing parents for replacement foods because they didn’t pack their kid’s lunch with the “required” nutrients.
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This coming from the editor of a website where I have spent plenty of time sitting on my ass reading what they post…
Obviously the reason I’m fat is you.
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I like this exercise.
- “dodging lawn darts”
- “riding underinflated hippity hops”
- “fighting our way back through the Bronx to our home turf on Coney Island after being wrongfully fingered for assassinating Cyrus”
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I’d bet on bacteria as well.
Tons and tons of articles and studies on this subject, almost all of them show dramatic impacts of different bacteria strains on weight. Makes sense since they are what break down our food into what we use.
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When I see people with curvy calves and slim ankles and wrists, but the rest of their bodies are proportionately obese, it saddens me because it’s apparent then that they didn’t start out obese. Especially if they have a healthy-looking child with them who is obviously theirs.
And pre-pubescent boys with breasts…that’s really sad.
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Your lung capacity must be off the charts!
(I keed)
The last five years I made a concerted effort to walk, not drive, and do my own lawn care. Dropped 20 lbs. All those little things add up.
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I don’t want to go too off topic, but I always find this interesting.
I lived in a relatively posh rural farming community for years. Quaint postcard houses, lots of retirees, a good school, etc. The only store in town only ever had a small amount old scraggily veg, and it was expensive.
I have also lived in very, very blue collar neighborhood in Phoenix (most people used a different, more perjorative word, but I liked it), and the local Food City was incredible. 10 avocadoes for a dollar!? Cheap, everything you could want (cactus, banana leaves, real tomatoes, mangoes, etc).
So I know that it is possible to sell healthy produce in low income areas, and people will buy it. I guess there just needs to be the will from the business to accept lower margins.
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What that might have been is a locally-owned store. You need an unusual mix of someone who knows the area so they’re not scared to open a business there, and yet has the acumen and access to capital to actually set something up.
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Local chain. I wish we had them around here.
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Yeah, well, they’re still much thinner than us overseas. So…I think it’s that we’re eating more food of lower quality while exercising less. And the biggest part of that is more food.
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Wait… is it because Jane Fonda isn’t make workout videos anymore?
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And the Richard Simmons supply is at an all-time low.
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This reads like fat shaming.
Who, exactly, “starts out obese?” Do they pop out of their momma that way?
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Wait, is crossfit the modern day equivalent of Richard Simmons and Jane Fonda?
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Well, that explains a thing or two about crossfit!
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Look at photos of people from the 1970s and it’s like obesity had not even been invented! If you transported five average teens of today back to a high school of the 1970’s, they would have been the five of the fattest kids in school.
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