It is not *what* foods we eat, it is how much, and how much exercise we get.
Food has become cheaper and more convenient. Physical exercise is far less necessary to make a living.
Together, they have produced lots of overweight people.
If you look were people are thinner, there are two common threads. Food is more expensive, and physical exertion more necessary. Just walking a few miles a day instead of driving or sitting at home and having something delivered, contributes enormously to lowering your weight.
“It is not *what* foods we eat, it is how much, and how much exercise we get.”
It is much more complex than that. If you have cravings for food, you will end up eating more. OK, that is psychological, but it is still real. If I eat lots of carbs, I get severe (migraine-level) headaches between meals, which eating more carbs will stop - for a few hours. But if I emphasize fats and protein, I simply do not get the headaches, even if I’m eating just one meal a day. I can eat less without the cravings and debilitating pain.
Energy in vs energy out is not the total picture.
I tell people that regardless of your auto use otherwise, walk to the store for groceries, take the bus back. Soon you’ll be walking both ways. Walking for speed on the balls of your feet, one day you’ll feel good and be tempted to jog. That’s what I did.
Walking to get food makes the exercise easy, you desire the goal of lunch very much, lol. And mentally the walking is a “break”. But I needed to up my fitness, and walking for speed led to jogging like falling off a log.
Lately I’ve respected my age and the heat wave, though. I start at a walk and up it, but if I feel like crap I don’t push it. Usually I’m OK I just sweat like hell.
has the food changed?...the activity?...
I really think its the amount of food we eat....
remember when McDonalds had a "full meal" for under a dollar?....you were happy to get a small drink, a small hamburger and a small fry...
now, its jumbo this and jumbo that...