IMO, carbs and sugar from processed food consumed as encouraged by the FDA Food Pyramid and anti-fat messaging has led to widespread obesity and increased metabolic problems. You add other complicating factors like sedentary life style, smoking or drinking and you will in all likelihood end up with heart issues or a stroke.
Exactly right. Diet is everything when it comes to health. The massive consumption of carbohydrates, ever increasing in the 20th and 21st centuries, has led to an explosion of hitherto relatively uncommon metabolic and inflammatory diseases. These include diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, obesity, allergies, Crohns disease, etc etc etc.
The best course would be for all of us to go back to real, unprocessed food with fats and protein as the main constituents. We evolved as hunters, not grazing animals.
Wow, IamConservative, you think like I do. I agree exactly. The government anti-saturated fats campaign started in the '70's was a disaster! And pushing polyunsaturated oils. Diabetes and gut-related conditions exploded. Low carb high fat is the way to go! You can cut out 75% of the aisles in the supermarket.