re: How common was obesity in the past?

Lôoked at my Senior HS class pic the other day, even the ones we thought were fat them would be average now. Everyone was reasonably fit.

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Correlation isn't causation but the decline of smoking matched the rise of obesity nicely

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A chubby chick was being a real bitch. She lit up a smoke and I asked her if she smoked to keep the weight off. She legit slapped me.

I was born in 82’ as a reference but my grandpa was 6’ 1” and 230 pounds and he was considered fat back then. The fatness of the world today is a symptom of a sick nation. It’s all by design!

Several major health problems are contributing:

1. Diet. Too much food, too often, and too much sugar in the form of sucrose especially (with too few healthy fats and too few vegetables)
2. Exercise. Too little too infrequently and often too low in intensity to raise the HR significantly enough for major health benefits
3. Sleep is massively undervalued as a factor in health. Mental illness, weight issues, and hormone production including insulin are substantially improved in people who get 8 hours instead of 6 or fewer.

There's a 3 mile long sidewalk between the towns of Jonesboro and Hodge. The paper mill is in Hodge, most of the workers lived in Joneboro, and almost no one had a car back in the day. The mill workers would walk 3 miles to the mill, work a shift of physical labor, and walk 3 milesback home.

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You just see A LOT more of them now because internets

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False. Women today weight as much as the average man did in the 40's.

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People still cooked meals in the 80s and “screen time” was basically evening news, Johnny Carson and MTV.

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This. People spend a ton of time looking at screens in modern times.

Increasingly inactive lifestyles mixed with fast food. Both were less common 40 years ago. Plus no cell phones or internet.