What happened in the 80s?
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DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 17 hours 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 16 hours ago
matlag@sh.itjust.works 12 hours 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 16 hours ago
Isn’t the correct answer that glucose-fructose syrup got subsidised?? (I might have my history wrong)
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Also, the “low fat” fitness craze started and manufacturers started replacing fat with sugar.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yes. Well that and sugar tariffs combined.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 hours 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 9 hours ago
A significant part of it is the stuff they put in our food.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 16 hours 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 13 hours ago
We tens to visualise the people typing like us. At least, I do
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
So that’s why I see everybody as fat as fuck and tipping a fedora to me. Good to know.
Lilac@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Ok, I do have trouble visualising you as an 18 year old girl 🤣
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Most.