You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension
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To be fair, it's not 100% people's fault. Maybe 75%.
Remember that most modern food is almost literally poison; absolute slop filled with water, preservative chemicals, and organic byproducts. Couple that with people not being taught, either by parents or by schooling, how to cook and eat healthy AND the hidden trap in trying to teach yourself how to cook from old cookbooks that assume the ingredients being used aren't slop and poison, and you get a very nearly catch-22: eating what seems like normal amounts of simple food like bread and cheese gets you a sugar addiction, and unless you can grow your own food or live near enough to farms to buy raw ingredients, can't get decent food to cook with.
My grandma taught me how to cook, and bless her heart but she wanted to add 500 kcal of butter to each dish because of how she grew up and how her mother taught her. If I tried to cook her meals and eat them, I'd balloon out in a month since I don't work in the fields eight to twelve hours a day.
you can still lose weight or be an ideal weight eating modern processed food though. Some doctor did by eating exclusively Twinkies with vitamin supplements
Oh, yeah, absolutely, CICO is king because you can't best thermodynamics.
I meant it more in the sense of "a slice of bread shouldn't be 15g of sugar and 250 kcal". Especially when you consider the fact that loads of people can't read a menu at McDonalds (I'm old enough to remember when their menus had text and not just pictures on them) and need a calculator to divide by two or ten, and we're expecting them to understand nutrition facts and ingredient lists.
Imagine thinking you're eating healthy because you had a turkey and processed cheese sandwich with some sliced veggies, and you don't realize your small sandwich was 550 kcal by itself, so you have another later because the lack of fat in the meal meant you got hungry again, and you've just blown through half your reccomended daily kcal intake and eaten 30-50 grams of sugar, depending on the type of bread used.
Its criminal.
I remember when nutrition labels became mandatory for everything back in the 90s. Has obesity increased or decreased since then? information or lack of it is not the issue.
but to my original point: one would learn and understand that processed food is bad for you and cook for yourself while learning to maintain or lose weight.