re: When did obesity really become an epidemic?

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when unhealthy food became cheaper than healthy food.

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Not entirely true. How much does an egg cost? How about an apple? How about carrots? You can eat healthy cheap, it just takes time to prepare and people are lazy.

Honestly it has a lot to do imo with a/c, cable TV, and then the internet blowing up.

Working in ICU I guess I started noticing it about 1995.Prior to that it was rare to get
a 300 lb. pt,if we did it was some guy 6’5” or so.We started getting an occasional 300 lb’er.After about 2000 they became fairly common to where we always had at least 1.About 2005 it really exploded,we would usually have a couple,started getting
400 lb’er,some pushing 500

One awful week we had 7 300-500 lb pts.Being a male I got to pull on or turn every one of them,several times a day.

Big part of why I retired early(60) is my shoulders were wrecked,I slept in lounge chair my last 2 years and probably 6 months after.
I was always very careful of my back and never injured it but I saw quite a few,especially males that ruined their backs.

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When private schools popped up to protect our children from going to school with black kids. Moms had to go back to work to pay for the schooling. Homemade meals declined and fast food was born. Unpopular opinion I know.

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To be fair, there were a lot of other factors at play here. The message from mainstream education, entertainment, media, etc. is that a woman without a "career" is tragically oppressed. Some of those women working desk jobs don't give two shits about whether their kids go to private school.

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When private schools popped up to protect our children from going to school with black kids. Moms had to go back to work to pay for the schooling. Homemade meals declined and fast food was born. Unpopular opinion I know.

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then why are balck kids obese?

Were their moms going to work to pay for private school?

High fructose Corn Syrup in e erything
GMO hybrid grains that have ultra high glycemic index

Started in the 70s. Now we have generations raised on it.

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Even at home when you worked in the yard it was more labor. Now people have riding mowers for the 1/4 acre plot, hire a maid to clean the house, and sit on their couch. Even country living isn’t near about what it use to be. Go to someone’s house out in the woods and kids are still staring at screens all day along mom and dad doing the same thing.

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There was a thread here a few weeks ago where someone was complaining about not being allowed to use leaf blowers. It was mentioned that the alternative that had been suggested was using a rake or broom, and this was widely viewed here as preposterous .

Leaf blowers, elevators, drive-through food... I question why any of this shite even exists. It's clear we have a problem, and using internal combustion to move every damned thing to where it needs to be, from a leaf to a hamburger, is not helping.

40 years ago?

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Remember the fat-free cookies that were supposed to be healthy? Even as a kid, I could sense that was complete bull shite. You will literally die without fat in your diet, but that’s what the scientific community goes after. Then about 10 years ago we learn they were paid off to overemphasize the harms of fat, and overlook the harms of sugar, which anyone with a brain could tell is the real issue.

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Snackwells was the brand, incidentally, they just discontinued this brand in 2022.

The first example was probably the push to replace breast milk with formula in the 1930s. Companies sold it as the healthier option. During that period the agriculture department started getting heavily involved in our food policy, to the detriment of our health.

If I remember correctly that’s about the time they started experimenting with the Red Delicious apple to make it more visually appealing, and to extend its shelf life. They would eventually ruin it.