On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:32:58 -0500, Shay wrote:

> 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.

I'd have to see how those studies were conducted.  But with the increase 
of things like high fructose corn syrup in everything now as a sweetner 
it wouldn't surprise me.

>> 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.

True.

Jim

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