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cml750 said:
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This kind of nonsense is so unscientific and mostly based on agendas rather than science.

The generation before mine, meaning my mom, for example, used Crisco all the time, for frying, baking, you name it. You look at photos from my parents' youth and you will find no one was fat. Movies of people walking down city streets show a bunch of slender people with only the occasional obese person.

There are many reasons for why we are fatter today than the generations before us. For a start, we are far more sedentary then the generations before us. We have more cars than our parents and we walk less and drive more. In general we are less active because we have in home entertainment our parents didn't have. I grew up with 1 TV in my house. How many TVs are in the average household today? Plus, we had only a few stations broadcast so there was less content to attract us to the TV. We didn't sit around on our phones because we had no phones or computers. As kids, when we wanted to talk to our friends we went outside and met them face to face - and it usually involved riding bike, or playing sports.

Then, we have far more food options today. The junk food aisles in the stores are usually the largest isles of any food type. And our parents, by and large, did not overindulge us with those kinds of foods. My mom refused to buy us an cereals with sugar on them. It was plain cheerios or shredded wheat. I don't think she was unusual for my generation. Today, Americans on average consume an enormous amount of sugar in all forms. Our bodies were not made to process that much sugar which is why some of us wind up with diabetes.

But what all of this comes from is an economy that is far larger than in the past, and more geared towards service related products than manufacturing or farming. More people are sitting in office jobs than in the past, again making them less active. And a larger economy means more people have disposable income which they use to buy food items they may have skimped on before.

I am not saying seed oils are good or bad for you. But I will argue that the problem of obesity and failing health in America is more than just seed oils.

And by the way, remember when animal fats were considered unhealthy? Now beef tallow is considered a healthy option. Go figure.
 
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