John,
So why is everyone getting fat? McDonalds? TV? Computers? You are the obesity expert so you must know.
Main reason is the misguided Food Pyramid, that came from government bureaucrats, and is drilled to population as a healthy diet. The beraucrats want people to stuff themseles with grain and grain derived products.
The food industry loves that because they can buy dirt cheap commodity grains, add their adidives, salt, sugar, hydrogenated oils, flavorings, and sell this dirt cheap garbage at premium.
Environmentalist love that too, because feeding masses of people, if you barely want them to survive (but not necessarily be healthy and prosper) grains are the most efficient way to achieve it.
Unfortunately, human digestive system has taken 10s of thousands of years to develop, and does not readily respond to latest trends in political correctness.
BTW, speaking of fat asses and politics... do you believe that most of the "upperclass" are Republicans and the "underclass" are Democrats? How does that correlate with education and party affiliation? What is Rush Limbaugh's demographic?
The very bottom of the society in whatever category you pick are heavily Democrat. Let's say (WAG) bottom 20%. The rest of the income groups are spread more evenly. But if the overall split is 50/50 and nearly 20% of the Democrats are at the bottom, the higher income groups are more Republican than Democrat.
Joe |
