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Everything Voluntary Jack's avatar

Charles Murray's "Losing Ground" I think helps explain why poor Americans are gaining weight. You get what you incentivise and relieve responsibility for.

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Doug Thorburn's avatar

Big Ag and Big Food got the government, in typical regulatory capture fashion, to create a food pyramid that is largely inverted from what it should look like. They used classic propaganda methods to get people to eat more carbs and more seed oils (the latter of which barely existed a hundred years ago), at the same time telling everyone dairy and meat fats are bad. The "poor" are likely more susceptible to propaganda; hence, they are likely bigger believers in the lie that Ancel Keys started 60 years ago (famously before the obesity epidemic began) that "carbs good, fats bad."

It's a time bomb and a large part of the reason our lifespans averaged only about 79 years (shorter lives than those in many other countries) before the jab started killing off young people, bringing it down to 76.

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