The vast increase in starchy carbohydrates (breads, pasta, potato chips), far greater consumption of sugar through packaged foods and soft drinks, and the development of processed foods are the main culprits. Eighty or ninety years ago, flour,rice, dried beans, and some canned goods were about the only food bought at grocery stores. Restaurants were fewer in number. Fast food restaurants were not yet in existence.
Combined with a lesser degree of manual labor at both work and home, and you have a perfect storm that has led to mass obesity in this country.
I like you a lot but it’s more than that
Folks who do less to improve their station are also more likely to be fat as hell
It is part of the same pattern
Self respect and reliance and responsibility
Not manual labor or more food
They just don’t have the care or discipline
Go in their homes
Or cars
Filth and sloth
Uncleanliness
Bastard kids one after another
It’s Idiocracy basically
It’s pathetic
Imagine being born into Honey Boo Boo and looking out at the world going why me?
I grew up when poor people of any color still had dignity and kept neat homes and strived
Something is broke and it’s their own damned faults
Nothing else
I agree that we certainly are not as active as many people were back in the 1920s-30s, and thank God for that! If you consume more calories than you burn off, you will put on weight... at least that is what they tell me, and I am still trying very hard to care. The body was designed to consume whatever it can find... including a nice bag of chips ;)