Why Being Skinny Used to Be Easier

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Why Being Skinny Used to Be Easier


More than a third of adults in the United States are obese. This statistic is often attributed to a confluence of unhealthy dietary practices, sedentary lifestyles, and genetics. But we may be missing the bigger picture.

A 2015 study revealed that people today are 10 percent heavier than they were in the 1980s—even with the same diets and…

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  1. In 1980’s, we had amphetamines for breakfast, dinner and tea and we had our mothers yelling at us, so we didn’t eat so much. Nowadays, it’s much different they like you a lot more.

  2. another thing is devices, obviously people back then had tv’s but not much, we have phones, tablets, ipads, xbox, ps5, AND MUCH MORE. we spend time eating and doing these things and we just sit while eating food and don’t do anything after. it causes weight gain

  3. I absolutely assure you Oreos and butter were cause of my obesity. I would put so much butter on the bread, of course it tasted good. But not good but sooo good. Oreo shaked are soo good and easy to make. I would never do but if I wanted I can make shake rn. Omg! The temptation but you gotta be strong.

  4. No… it's NOT a positive thing that we are accepting of huge bodies. If we accept them, then there is no incentive to change. We have seen that health has not been too much of a factor in motivation to lose weight. So no… do NOT accept IN YOUR MIND that being fat is okay.

  5. Americants. No its not genetic.
    1300 endocrine disruptors that are banned in the E.U. in your food that change the way your body processes nutrients and calories.
    How f-ed is that. The corporations own your government no matter who you vote for.
    Best thing you can do for your health is leave the U.S.A.

  6. People are by far WAY larger today. It is really quite astounding. I think there are a TON of factors! Being curvy is the in thing right now so a lot of women don’t have motivation to be a bit healthier due to this fad. Just as bad as anorexia really. WAY more sugar and processed foods today. More jobs which require sitting at a computer all day. Door dash. Less smoking 🚬 and cocaine use today. Probably more folks smoking weed today due to the laws changing. We all know that can increase appetite. I could go on! Folks need to take care of themselves – we were put in a situation to make corporations rich. Seeing certain obese models = it’s ok to be fat = it’s ok to eat fast food everyday = it’s ok to live on diabetes medicine = equals a never ending cycle that makes food corporations and the pharmaceutical industries hella rich. Don’t get stuck in the matrix.

  7. In a few years many will be over weight, or slimmer. I used to be smaller in the 80's, but since I have health issues my body fights off side effects from medicines. I went up to 300 pounds in the 90's due to my health becoming worse. Then into the 2000's my body deflated back to 210 pounds. In 2006 my weight cripped up to close to 300 again. A year ago I lost weight. 202 pounds was on the scale. I got on 2 medicines I blew up to 270 pounds. Having health issues is very uncomfortable.🙄

  8. Rolf!!! Been a trainer for 35 years now. Any chemical contaminants – which certainly aren’t good – are TINY factors compared to the diet and activity differences. What a sad attempt to play victim and pass the blame – I wouldn’t expect anything less from The Atlantic.

    And of course they tacitly admit it at the end – acceptance…. lol.

  9. It's because people used to have to carry their groceries. If you had to go to the store and carry your groceries home by foot or on a bike you have to have an energy balance between how much you can carry and how much you can eat. Now days they take a damn fork lift to the big box Costco store and get whole damn pallets of stuff. I hear someone pulling up to the house next door with one "beep beep beep".

  10. Society is more accepting of people with bigger body types because society is bigger body types. It's literally just people being like ah I don't want to change, lets just pretend being 400lb is beautiful and aspirational. And Ozempic pretty much proved people do not want to be fat even though they said they did.

  11. Oh my God really 🤪the reason why people were skinnier in the 80s is because we didn’t eat a lot of junk there was no Starbucks WITH all that sugar wasn’t dumped in our foods 👍🏻and we didn’t sit in front of the computer because only a few people had them & TV only had like 13 channels so we were constantly outside doing stuff

  12. It still comes down to the very simple equation: calories in versus calories expended. Regardless of what you want to blame it on (genetics, the environment, processed food etc.), if you start gaining weight then you are eating more than you need to. The #1 cause of obesity is still a lack of personal responsibility, regardless of how you dress it up.

  13. This video is nonsense and I suspect The Atlantic got money from the food industry and sugar industry to run it. The sugar industry has been caught numerous times paying dieticians to promote junk food and sugars as healthy. The reason why people are fat today is sugar. Sugar and junk carbs, essentially the same thing. I even read an article by a dietician the other day saying that potato chips are a healthy snack. LOL I grew up in the 60s and no one was fat. I only met one fat person in my life before the age of 25. A soda pop was a treat, fast food was a once every two month treat, ditto for ice cream, cake, chips, and even a candy bar. We had these but not often. We ate tons of red meat, in fact, meat was the mainstay of our diets. (PETA spreads anti meat propaganda but that's a whole another topic). Personally, I tried all the low fat diets and the advice of my doctor to eat like the food pyramid and I gained weight and was headed toward diabetes, like everyone else who follows their doctor's advice. Luckily, I picked up the Atkins book, read it cover to cover twice and started the Atkins way of eating. I lost 70 pounds, got off my blood pressure and cholesterol medication and feel great. I have kept the weight off now for 20 years and have no cravings, no hunger. I feel satiated all the time. I eat plenty of red meat, eggs, and bacon. I'm 62 and in the best shape of my life. Every fat person I know is sucking down some form of sugar during the day. Starbucks sugar drinks, big gulps, etc. Or men who drink beer, which is loaded with bad carbs that turn into sugar in your body. I have been in a state of ketosis now for ten years and my body does not have the mechanism to store fat. That's right, I can eat all the meat I want and not gain a pound. In ketosis, it's impossible. I never count calories or fat content. I don't care. I simply avoid sugar and processed foods and certain junk foods like potatoes and refined rice. Simple. It's not rocket science. Read Atkins New Diet Revolution and more importantly, understand it. The first thing you'll see if that 80% of the food available to you is garbage. Have eggs and bacon in the morning, a salad with sugar free dressing for lunch, and a nice cut of meat for dinner. Result: health and vitality.

  14. BIG reason is high fructose corn syrup, various increased amounts of sugar types, salts and artificial sweeteners killing the micro biome in processed foods.