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Originally Posted by Nitack
My point does address the questions you are getting at. Our diet has changed (much more readily available calories) and our daily activities have changed (the vast majority of people are much more sedentary). Take your pick for causes from these two (in my opinion after reading of the research): - We have increased the amount of Calories consumed daily, and not increased our daily activities (energy usage) to match
- We have decreased our daily activity level, and have not decreased our daily Calorie intake to match
Either answer is supported by the facts and would explain the epidemic. Both answers can be true at the same time, and are according to the current literature, and would create the perfect storm for an epidemic of obese proportions.  |
I agree completely. I wonder if there might be sociological reasons for obesity. Have you considered why people living in urban Japan are some much less likely to be obese than people living in urban America.
On paper both are as sedentary and have the same "readily available" access to food. Obesity being a public problem (it costs medicare all kinds of money), I think it would be good to know the social causes so we can do something about it in an intelligent way.
For example, you wouldn't fix crime by saying people are stupid and violent as you wouldn't fix obesity by saying people are glutinous and lazy. Identifying sociological (and biological) reasons for crime is useful as it should be with obesity.
~modest
