Reply #38: our weight is indeed a problem

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How about "weight gain"? If obesity isn't acceptable, how about we just say Americans are bigger than they have ever been before.

Also, don't forget the higher incidence of type II diabetes. That has been linked to weight.

We evolved in an enviroment of unpredictable food supply. We eat like hogs when it was plentiful with the anticipation that food might later be scarce. We were especially glutonous whenever we encountered high energy foods that contain sugars, fats and proteins.

It is not just food in general that is now readily available in countries like the US, it is high energy food.

We also evolved as physically active creatures. We no longer travel many miles a week gathering and hunting food. For that matter, we no longer tend fields and livestock like we did just a half century ago. Instead, we walk to and from vehicles that take us where we want to go. We sit in chairs at work, read a book or watch TV on the couch at home.

We don't do a whole lot and yet we eat high energy foods day in and day out.

The affect is most obvious in rural areas and inner cities where people are poor and/or have more traditional eating habits. Just go to a Walmart in hometown USA and you will see these mythical obese and overweight people.