>>15584154Really not that much has changed between today and the 1990's. Car access per capita is up like 5% from 68% to 73%, The percentage of labor v. office jobs is nearly identical and yes - Americans eat more fast food today but they still ate a fucking ton back in the 90's. So what caused Americans to go from just overweight to morbidly fucking obese with 400 and 500 pounders being something you wouldn't even bat an eye at.
Something has definitely changed and we can't continue to pretend it's caused by slight behavioral trends. Could it be that in 1994 McDonald's stopped frying their potatoes in beef tallow and moved to using vegetable oil. Most other chains followed shortly after. We've completely disregarded butter, lard, and tallow which had been used for all of history and moved to frying in oils intended to be engine fuel and all of a sudden people have become completely monstrosities never before seen by man so hideous they're something out of a Brother's Grimm book.
