On 09/30/2013 05:44 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:36:38 -0500, Shay wrote:
>
>> "Jim Henderson"  wrote in message news:5249dcd8@news.povray.org...
>>
>>> One might also argue that obesity has long been around - in fact, food
>>> related health issues were somewhat worse back "in the old days".
>>
>> Any evidence to for that opinion (excluding famine) would surprise me. I
>> went to a seven-year-old's birthday party a few weeks ago. Every child
>> there would have been considered overweight when we were kids.
>
> That seems pretty anecdotal to me.  I'd want to see some real data.

I just did an image search for "obesity timeline." I don't have time to 
examine any individual studies, but there seems to be a consensus.

>
> Though arguably the best food advice was to be had 30 years ago, too -
> "moderation".

I hear that often, but the obesity trend demonstrates that our idea of 
moderate isn't.

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