• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Do you think people magically started overeating just recently?

    Poor people? Absolutely. They couldn’t afford enough calories to get fat.

    There have always been fat rich people.

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      11 months ago

      Food has been cheap and plentiful since the 50s. Obesity started decades later.