While HFCS could be a factor, I think the automobile has made us fat. People don’t walk anymore they drive. I used to see people walking to the store, riding their bicycle to work. Lots of places don’t have sidewalks and the traffic is awful, it’ dangerous to walk. Everyone has a car or catches a ride. Some people walk and run around the track but they drive their car to the track and home again. It’s been 100+ degrees for weeks, I don’t want to walk anyplace, thank God I don’t have to and I’m not fat I’m fluffy.
Here in the border state of Maryland, our local strip mall has to ticket the SUVs that are illegally parked at the curb in front of the gym, where people can be seen through the window doing cardio on walking machines. They won't park in the lot that is -- and I am not making this up -- ten to twenty steps away.