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A comment on the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X. Parent comment

Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by philwelch on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:32PM (#36765582)
That’s mostly due to obesity, which is a consequence of the quantity and (flavor) quality of food getting better over time; a side effect of economic prosperity.
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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by r00fus on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:42PM (#36765713)
s/economic prosperity/lack of regulation/

Palm oil is in everything in the US, in France there's a lot more lighter oils and butter.

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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by philwelch on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:22PM (#36767427)
The obesity epidemic hasn’t spared France either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_France
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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by actionfromafar on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:57PM (#36765850)
You meant getting worse.
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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by philwelch on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:20PM (#36767413)
No, I didn’t.

Obesity is a side effect of having so much food that calories are cheap and plentiful. That’s why obesity rates are rising everywhere in the first world. It’s also something virtually unprecedented in human history.

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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by actionfromafar on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:42AM (#36800316)
And it won't last. Fossil fuels make up almost all fertilizer.
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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by Sterm on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:19PM (#36766549)
If food is killing you that's not an improvement in food.
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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by philwelch on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:17PM (#36767393)
If you have so much food even the poorest people can get fat, you are a richer and more prosperous society than 99.9% of human history.

Btw obesity is rising in Europe as well.

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