Citation needed.
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Complete lack of drive through fast food in France, maybe? Obesity seems to need plenty + lower penalties for gluttony.
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Replying to @Recursion_Agent @M_Methuselah
Nobody knows what's causing the rise in obesity. My money's on air conditioning, TBH
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Replying to @St_Rev @M_Methuselah
That could def be a contributing factor. Also: soft drinks.
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Replying to @Recursion_Agent
Government nutrition policy since 1970 or so has been catastrophically bad. Eggs and fats demonized, carbs pushed hard. Now almost everyone has fatty liver disease from all the fructose.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Recursion_Agent
Obesity in general is really hard to find a clear causative factor for, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-alcoholic_fatty_liver_disease … is a lot more straightforward.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Recursion_Agent
Is it that hard? Sedentary humans have always been fat. Like every royal ever painted. We just have a lot more of them now.
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Replying to @upstatefederlst @St_Rev
It's much more than that, tho. Obese people can be obese because they sit around, but they can also be sedentary because they're obese. At a certain point one can eat too much garbage for any activity level.
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Replying to @Recursion_Agent @upstatefederlst
Study a few years back indicated that there was no significant change in physical activity over the last few centuries -- people replaced physical labor and walking to get around with working out and jogging.
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I don't have a link handy, unfortunately.
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There's also the fact that pets, lab animals and wild rats are becoming obese at similar rates as humans. Can't exactly pin cultural degeneracy on a laboratory mouse or a sewer rat.
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