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My dad visited the United States back in the 80s, and he claims that even back then, americans were a bunch of fatties. Well, atleast compared to Europe at the time. He claims that the obesity epidemic didn't start in Europe until the 90s. When did the obesity epidemic start in the US?
Idk I wish they'd stop the body positivity movement. Theres nothing positive about being over weight. Its ugly and its bad for your health. I dont get why people just accept it for themselves.
I think fat people are tired of everyone telling them “hey, did you know your fat and thats bad?” Like maybe its not about being fat and beautiful but wanting to hear something other than “mammoth whale” all the time. I dunno
I don't get it either. I think there is value in learning to love yourself as you are in the present moment, but that's not the same as celebrating being fat. You can love yourself but still understand that you are an unhealthy weight and that you need to make changes. That's not hateful, it's just facts.
I don't think uber eats will help, but it may be more useful to be more concerned with your own weight and health than a bunch of random people who you don't know
It's a health crisis. No one is forcing obese people to eat cake and cookies. Eat some lettuce!
I still say care about your own health as selfish as it sounds others health isn't important to you unless they're someone you love and the OP seems to be talking about people he doesn't even know. Maybe I'm a bitch, but I'm Not going to lose sleep over strangers health
I agree with freakyman, butId say early 80’s when Reagan cut funding for phys ed in schools. That with the rise in video games that made kids stay inside more and not go out and play.
The late 1980s is when fast food really started to take a foothold. it was around before then but not nearly as much. now every rural community has at least 1 Mcdonalds.
Actually, it started in the 1960s and was well in progress in the 1970s.
The key base was a change in the normal American diet from home cooked meals (from scratch) to processed foods with lots of artificial fats (that the body does not know how to properly process), other artificial fats like margarine which the body does not know how to process properly, increased simple carbohydrates (various forms of sugar), and a shift to pre-processed meals that you could just warm up (TV Dinners as they were called back then) - which require all kinds of stuff in them that would not be in a similar dish cooked from scratch, and the transition to things like cake and donuts many days a week instead of once a week (or rarer than that).
The replacement of cane sugar with corn syrup in sodas, and the high numbers of children who prefer playing video games to actually going outside to play, or participate in sports haven't done us any favors that is for certain!
I'd go for the Eighties as well.
The reasons are many, varied and debatable, but I suspect some of the most important factors are that calories have become extremely cheap in historical terms, the manufacturers of processed foods have become very good at designing cheap, convenient foods that push our instinctive "Mmmm! Tasty!" buttons, and work has tended to become much less physically demanding.
If I was given the job of making Americans leaner and I was endowed with the magical power to do a single thing, I'd make all soft drinks vanish. Not only do Americans guzzle a lot of calories without ever thinking about what the numbers on their two-liter bottles mean in relation to their recommended maximum daily caloric intake, there are serious concerns about the long-term effects of artificial sweeteners, particularly whether they might be implicated in the growing numbers of people with diabetes.
I would say in the 1990's since from 1991 the population who was obese in the US was 12% and then it jumped to 18% by 1998.