Re:U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021
by bastijn on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:02AM
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Plus in the 70s I can imagine life was far more physical than today.
Re:U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021
by fbdab103 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:16AM
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I sometimes ponder how quickly we are descending into Wall-E. I spend so much of my life in front of a screen, I have to force myself to get a baseline amount of daily physical activity.
Now it is entirely possible to spend the entire workday having barely taken any steps or physical exertion.
Re:U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021
by lylejantzi3rd on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @07:54AM
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Short answer: it isn't the sugar. It's our ability to process the sugar. We've had the cause and effect reversed for decades. Our metabolisms (ie: ability to turn sugar into energy) are being broken by something in our diet and that's causing obesity and diabetes.
Really long answer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo4Cmo9MNYmm_MCLowkfJ...
But people don't become obese overnight. People ate much more sugar in 2000-2010, and those people, if not dead now, are still contributing to the obese rate today.
Also this graph shows people are still eating more sugar in 2021 than in 1970. Just not as much as in 2000.
No one says sugar is the only reason causing obesity. But this graph doesn't debunk the correlation between sugar and obsesity either.