and there are many people like you! yet a century ago you could have eaten cake every day if you wanted, though not ice cream, and in many places, many people already had office jobs to which they could take the subway. why did your counterparts in new york not have an obesity epidemic? somehow they didn't want to eat cake instead of food, and they felt restless if they had so little activity

clearly diet and exercise are the proximate causes of obesity, but what has so deranged our diet and exercise?