Dietary fat has similarly decreased, as obesity has continued to rise.
Exercise and most measures of physical activity, by contrast, have risen along with obesity.
“Organic” food has replaced efficient food as the primary source of American produce.
And processed foods have been on the decline since 2014.
Despite all of this, obesity is still on the rise.
No diet except for extreme calorie restriction and intermittent fasting has measurable health benefits, on the basis of the evidence.
Nutrition is hard to study. On the basis of good science, most of the theories that are passed around are demonstrably wrong, including the ones advanced by doctors.
CICO is true, but this is a trivial observation. Our bodies regulate both calories in and calories out, so either they do so differently than they used to, or something other than the amount we eat and exercise is different.
The rise of hyper-palatable, ultra-cheap calories is a contending explanation, and the current food inflation will go a long way towards providing more or less evidence for it. But since we eat hardly more calories than we did in 1909, this doesn’t seem like the most likely explanation either.
The bottom line here is, we don’t know what changed yet, and we don’t yet know how to fix it. Anyone telling you different is either lying, or wrong.
If the total calories are indeed the same, then their quality diminished
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