Reply #31: People are forgetting that the industrial nations have spread

[Mnemosyne]

toxic chemicals and pesticides from one end of the world to the other, including additives in food.

These things affect the body in many ways, yet most people would rather blame eating too much and laziness as the basic cause of obesity.

I call bullshit. I suffer from heavy metal poisoning and chemical/pesticide toxicity. I know what it has done to me. Mine may be extreme, but chronic low-level exposure can and will cause repercussions to the body over time. The young are especially sensitive to the effects of these poisons.

Anyone that denies that toxic heavy metals/chemicals and pesticides have no effect on the human body has their head up their ass.

HFCS is also another major contributor, though I would not consider it the main factor, but one in the culmination of many.