[Drew68]

When will people figure out it is not what we eat but how much we eat and how much exercise we get.

Americans eat too much (in terms of portion size) and exercise too little. This is why we have an obesity epidemic.

[backhoe]

When will people figure out it is not what we eat but how much we eat and how much exercise we get. Americans eat too much (in terms of portion size) and exercise too little. This is why we have an obesity epidemic.

That's it in a nutshell.

Personal ( empirical ) observation? I live in the deep South, and most of my older friends and relatives smoked, drank, and ate fried foods, beans cooked in bacon, eggs- all the "bad" stuff.

Most lived into their eighties, and a few into their nineties-- and they all did well until they stopped moving and working- that's when they fell apart.