During my list making I stumbled on this article
It's about historical calorie intake and workouts. People were eating way more calories, and doing less, and still had a lower body weight. We are constantly being told to lower our calories, exercise, and fight the obesity epidemic. Nothing fits by the historical records. Every suggestion is wrong.
I knew something was weird when I was told by a lower rich class guy that the poor couldn't afford real food. He meant the super expensive but not as good food at those special grocery stores.
It appears that the way this is done is
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Choose something no one knows that well.
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Have an obvious fake news that is prompted by all media.
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Make one side look stupid and lazy.
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Promote the bad side as rebellions
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Have tons of business to deal with the non existent problem both for and against
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Change the word use if people start to catch on.
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Promote laws stopping the Lazy Stupid people from being tricked by Evil. Said laws remove rights from everyone.
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Have demonstrations and big promotions against said thing for people to make money to 'battle' the problem. This is all a scam of some kind.
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The Lazy Stupid people are told they are special and beautiful. This niche is used for money laundering. No one is told it's not an actual problem.
I've seen this in obesity, Covid, videogames, global warming, hawks in England, sparrows in China, and several others. What others can you think of? Why is obesity promoted so hard, and what is the truth?
Their calories were coming from actual food.
Not the processed chemicals laden shit we are fed nowadays.
They were also not spending 16 hours a day sitting around their lard asses on social media.
I think this is a big deal. "Empty calories" isn't a thing for real food.
It's hard to be fat in olden times. Not only do you have to constantly eat, the quantity that you have to eat is preposterous.
Go ahead, get fat on apples or oranges. See if you don't shit yourself first. Apples are 50 calories. Most people can scarf down a 250 calorie Snickers bar in one sitting. But now ask them to eat five fucking apples instead. Same calories, same sugars.
Doritos are so covered in high calorie oils that they are an excellent form of kindling.
Exercise is still absolutely a factor. When you are a farmer, you burn astronomical amounts of calories. Especially if you are a pioneer farmer, where being a lumberjack and woodworker is all part of the same job.
This is why American colonials made Bread Pudding, and seemed to be incapable of being fat.
Not to mention to preserve everything they would soak meets in lard. Fat as it is, they would burn through it.