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It's all SO simple! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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The struggle is worse the older you get.

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[–] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Every fat person on earth already knows that too much food makes you fat.

Yet somehow, even armed with this knowledge, we're all fat.

Curious.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It's funny how you never visualise the person on an internet forum as fat, but some of the people typing here are fat.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We tens to visualise the people typing like us. At least, I do

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So that's why I see everybody as fat as fuck and tipping a fedora to me. Good to know.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    What happened in the 80s

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    A combination of sugar subsidies, market penetration of transformed food while the food industry figured they could make their customers sugar-addict, the start of GDP and minimum salary drifting away from each other, meaning poor households no longer able to afford quality food, and running through 2 or 3 jobs doesn't leave you much time to cook.

    So, in a summary: that's completely a personal responsibility issue.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't the correct answer that glucose-fructose syrup got subsidised?? (I might have my history wrong)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yes. Well that and sugar tariffs combined.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    And the long trend of decreasing home cooking really gained steam. Homemade food can be delicious, but it is rarely hypersatiable. It's also more likely to contain things like vegetables (though I'll admit, I don't use enough in my household, my wife hates my "could eat it nonstop" veggie and I'm allergic to hers).

    We've also increasingly been doing jobs that don't fulfill a meaningful portion of physical fitness, and as such we're increasingly underexercised

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