alt Hacker News> Obesity is a side effect of the industrial food production system in advanced economies that is slowly spreading all over the globe.
Yes, for the first time in the millions of years of existence of humanity and pre-humanity, we consistently have enough to eat.
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WalterBright • 10/11/2024
The US solved the food problem around 1800, being the first country to end the specter of famine.
Is not just “having enough”. People in New York had enough to eat for more than 60 years now - more like a 100 years. And ywt, up until the 1980s, obesity was a minor problem.
All standards have since changed. I watched the 1st season of the Simpsons again recently. In one of the episodes, Homer weighs himself and is distressed when discovering he weighs 200 lbs. 30 years later, dieters who cross down from 200 lbs to 199 lbs call it “reaching onederland” and it is considered a huge success.