Seems like everywhere you go there are so many overweight people today ... it’s definitely a modern phenomenon.
I’m sure in some people there are definite metabolic issues but (not being mean or snarky or anything) I think mostly it’s just a case of a wealthy nation with plentiful delicious food to eat and drink ... hard to say no.
I’ve had a rough year with that.
I _was_ 5’7” and 135 pounds from 16 to 38 years old. Last November I lost my income and tapped into the MREs and stuff.
After a month of it, I started getting a gut. I cut back and got back on a regular diet.
I ballooned to 180 in 2 months and now I’m hypo glycemic. I’m trying to work the gut away but I’m not really getting anywhere. I think a gym membership is next. The sudden hypoglycemia was the kicker for me though. I can’t go for more than a few hours without taking in something and it’s not my ideal “fighting weight” so to say.
If you look at the differences in the American diet from @ 1940 through today, you'll find that we eat far more processed & refined foods today than we did 40-60 years ago.
All these processed & refined foods contain stuff in them that IMO the human body isn't supposed to be ingesting, processing and expelling. Read the ingredients of Cheeto's for example. (Cheeto's and Pizza are my kryptonite.) How many of those ingredients can you pronounce properly? Or even know what they are?
As I stopped eating refined & processed foods and moved back to whole foods (fruits, vegetables, chicken, turkey, some beef) I saw my weight start falling. No sooner did I pick up a bag of Cheeto's and eat a pizza (and then fell off the health kick wagon..) did I see the weight start returning.
My own opinion is that it's all the refined/processed/pre-processed foods we eat in this country now vs. good old fashioned home cooking using natural ingredients. At least that's my experience.