Your gratuitous insult shows you to be a jerk and just negated anything your post might have been correct about.
Simply put, one's if one's caloric intake exceeds the consumption rate then one will put one weight and I don't care who shares that viewpoint.
Mankind has only had a few generations where lack of nutritious food wasn't the main enemy, and even that is not universal as much of the world still still struggles with food or dietary shortages and associated illnesses.
Look at TV from the 60's or 70's and see how slim the people were and that was because they didn't eat hugh portions and were more physically active. Simple enough for even you to understand it.
“Look at TV from the 60’s or 70’s and see how slim the people were and that was because they didn’t eat hugh portions and were more physically active.”
Ain’t gotta look at no TV; I was there.
People did not eat significantly less—perhaps even more—and were not significantly more active. The most exercise many people got was bar-hopping on Friday night.
Billy Lee Pies did a land rush business. Shakey’s was crowded most every night. We drank beer by the pitcher—two quarts for a dollar and a quarter. When people went out to eat, they wanted a *whole* plate of food: chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes, gravy (grease and flour) slathered over the whole thing, maybe some peas, and lots of dinner rolls with butter. Iced tea with plenty of sugar, and then dessert. Generally pie, cake, or ice cream, or any two of them.
Breakfast? Biscuits and gravy, fried eggs, bacon, sausage, sweet rolls, pancakes...that’s for me; what are you having?
And it didn’t make us fat.
I was skinny as a rail until I was 20 or 21, then bam! Something changed. I couldn’t reduce my intake enough to lose weight. I had to run at least 18 to 24 miles per week, ***and*** reduce my intake of food to preposterous levels to lose weight at keep it off. Neither reduction of intake nor exercise alone sufficed—and there’s something fundamentally wrong with that. There has to be a third—or third, fourth, and fifth—element at work there.
And anybody who can’t see that is just a big poopy head.
The only gratuitous insult I see is you labelling my response as a gratuitous insult. I can only assume you to be an illiterate jerk. If you were literate I’d suggest that you, too, read the article.