Why Being Skinny Used to Be Easier
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 exercise regimens. A new episode of The Idea File investigates the plethora of complex factors that may be contributing to our increasing BMI, including a changing microbiome and toxic chemicals in the environment.
For more, read Olga Khazan’s article “Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s:” https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/
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Eat less fast food and walk more. Results guaranteed.
Please get a pop filter for the voice over!
"If you don’t want to be skinny, that’s also fine."
That’s the why, right there.
I am a nutritionist: Healthy fats are extremely important in the diet, as important as fiber. What are not important & doing much harm are hydrogenated, processed, volatile oils & processed carbohydrates. Eating whole, real, organic foods – including grass fed & pasture-raised animal products along with lots of vibrant, organic veggies and fruits, and more nutrient-dense grains is the foundation for good health. ♡
Glad I live in Europe, when it comes to food laws
The food then wasn’t poisoned 😐
It’s the generalizations for me
everyone was on cocaine..thats why
I think we should try, the "Jfk Challenge". I believe this will help.
Here it is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fISgKl8dB3M&t=178s
Hope you enjoy and be inspired, I certainly was. ✌
I was a kid in the 70’s. People didn’t have a 12 pack of sugary soda in their home. It was too expensive. A Coke was a special treat you talked your mom into buying you when you passed a Coke machine. They came in 6.5 ounce and 10 ounce bottles. Today they come in 20 oz bottles. You can buy a 12 pack of 12 oz cans at any grocery store for $3.
There were no sugary snacks in our homes either. On rare occasions mom would bake a pie or make some candy. Potato chips were a rare treat as well. The most common snack was popcorn which you had to make on the stove top (no microwave).
I remember our town getting it’s first fast food (McDonalds). It had no drive through.
Video games and the internet did not exist. We only had 3 TV channels. I stayed outside playing football and baseball with neighborhood kids and always got mad when mom would make me come inside for lunch or dinner.
This is all just the cost of civilization, thats what you don’t realize. Quality of life and our health actually began to decline for us when we adopted agriculture. More food to support more humans, but the tradeoff was poorer nutrition and health
There’s a difference between being thick and being so obese/fat that u are literally killing your self
Fast food "supersizing" started in the early 1990’s and that contributed to the obesity problem. People used to eat smaller meal servings. Also people eat a lot more snacks than they used to. Growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s, we only ate at our mealtimes hardly ever did we snack in between. When we did it was fruit or just 1 or 2 cookies at most not the whole package. Only on special occasions like at the movies, ballgames, picnics, parties, we ate stuff like chips, cookies, popcorn and pastries. Now many people constantly snack all day on sugary, salty and starchy foods even when they’re NOT hungry.
4.16 this is where i draw the line, you should be nice to people, but being “accepting” can encourage fat to people to stay fat which is not a good thing
Impossible to be overweight and healthy. Sure we shouldn’t discriminate but let’s not confuse health with discrimination.
Was one of the chemicals *High Fructose Corn Syrup?*
https://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z53/MDA2007/cornsyrup.jpg
Because we got better technology and worse food.
The Atlantic is such garbage. I feel sorry for all the well-meaning people who believe The Atlantic.
So basically 80s coke had an impact
4:10 – doesn’t this undercut the entire argument???
Food and lifestyle.
I’m going hardcore organic and growing my food when I grow up
I wish the US banned all endocrine disrupters in food packaging (your first possible cause). The EU supports people, the US government supports industries.
Being skinner was easier due to people then not being as sedentary as people are now. Due to things like video games and home computing devices allowing to people to stay still longer, people gain weight from overeating. In the 80s and before, people had to move constantly, as technology such as arcade machines and computing devices weren’t available for everyone, to access these technologies, you had to travel to places that had them.
I don’t doubt that these factors are making an impact, but bad food and large portions are also a huge problem. People eat way too much and really bad food.
hidden sugars are the culprit
More cocaine, less internet.
No it’s just the hfcs
We mostly just eat crapier food than we used to.
Pollution is killing the animals and making us fat 😿
Oooor, radical hypothesis here, we’re just eating more and moving less?
Easy peasy. If is the food. As a kid, we went to McDonald’s on special occasions. Now, kids go every day after school.
Just remember guys it’s objectively wrong to be fat
In Murica*
Coke
Watching this as a german:😳
35 percent are obese…keep in mind over 65% of the population is still overweight
Watch the previous episode of the Idea File: Has work become our new religion in an era of burnout?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPQnCBnOLc&list=PLDamP-pfOskP2eAZ00DV2ge9h-ofiAmqM&
people "accepting” more body types basicly says YOU CAN’T BE SKINNY THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE
This hypothesis is absolute nonsense. People are fat because they eat too much and move too little. Yes, it is that simple. We will follow this trend until our culture stops medicating itself with food.
I don’t remember anywone working out in the 80’s. Paradoxically people work out more now and they are fater.Our eating habits Change as food became cheaper i guess
So chemicals not calories… ok
AHS -1984 vibe
I wish I lived in this decade
The government wants us to be fat and lazy
it also seems to be easier to be skinny in other parts of the world i’ve noticed. travelling to europe and eating their food, it seems like i’m eating more than usual but they’re food is just grown differently…
I mean,,obviously accepting people’s body types is good and important..but obesity and diabetes are a serious issue. It’s not about hate towards obesity or diabetes, it’s the fact that they’re legitimately not healthy and should be cause for real concern in our world…
2:09 Could you have found a more stigmatic clip to use for people who are prescribed anti depressants … i mean … just lazy and uninformed. It’s not 1995!
I call BS. This is all theory and.conjecture. Take a look at what people are eating. Junk. They also refuse to exorcise. Microbiome? Please give me a break
Become a vegetarian. Problem solved.