“Perhaps you need to do a little research before you reach a baseless conclusion. For example:
- have you taken into account the increase in lifespan (lifespan has increased 10 years since 1960, from 67 to 77)? As we have gained greater knowledge about life risks, things like herat disease kill less people, allowing us to live longer and become more susceptible to diseases that primarily afflict older people, such as Parkinson’s disease.
- Or possibly that medical science has greatly increased its ability to detect medical issues and label them, whereas before they were attributed to natural causes?
- In 1960, food represented 30% of an average American family’s budget. Now it is 12%.”
I have taken lifespan into consideration. But that’s not what I’m talking about. Have we ever seen the rate of type II diabetes that we see now? Have we ever seen early-onset, precocious puberty at the rates we see now? No! How about all the endocrine disorders that are appearing in young children? Where are those things coming from??
As far as the cost of food, cheap isn’t always better. We’re mass-producing food that contains chemicals & by-products that are destroying our health. And I don’t see many FReepers here who seem to give a damn. Instead, I’m called a lefty, a “greenie”, etc. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I just wish to be left alone to eat what I want, grow what I want, and be informed about what’s in the food I’m eating.
For a bunch of free-market, freedom-loving conservatives to be so opposed to that truly stuns me.
They dropped the Type II diagnostic standard down 10 points and doubled the numbers.
Obesity is thought to be the primary cause of type 2 diabetes. The rise in type 2 diabetes is directly in line with the rise in obesity.
Perhaps because GMOs make food more affordable, people eat more food. But to attribute the makeup of the food to diabetes is baseless.