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Re:Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb ... by tonyedgecombe on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:41PM (#20197147)
Physical activity has been falling since the start of the last century but obesity didn’t start climbing until the seventies. There is more to it than your simplistic explanation and solution.
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Re:Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb ... by pandaman on Sunday June 16, 2019 @04:54PM (#20197830)
Green Revolution[1] happened and food availability greatly increased. There is no need for more explanation than this.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

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Re:Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb ... by tonyedgecombe on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:23AM (#20200943)
It's interesting that that article doesn't mention obesity.
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Re:Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb ... by pandaman on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:29AM (#20203306)
Saying that people are fat because they eat too much had became non-PC around 1990s from my recollection so I would not expect such a statement from any Wiki article in 2019.
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