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llamaimperative10/12/20241 replyview on HN

I mean to say Homo sapiens has existed for 300,000 years. They have not been 70%+ overweight or obese for most of those years. All the way until the 90s, obesity rates have been WAY lower, even in food-abundant societies.


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jrflowers10/12/2024

What is your point? I mentioned drug availability in the 1950s and you dismissed it with an arbitrary list of other time periods. Someone else mentioned food scarcity in a period you mentioned, and you shifted the discussion to the 1990s (and now the past 300,000 years ???).

It seems like you do not want to discuss any factors relating to obesity in history at all, yet you keep engaging in this topic anyway. It is impossible to have a conversation where one side discusses facts like drug availability or food scarcity and the other says “no think about something else” as a canned response.

What do you think is the cause of the increased level of obesity? What do you think is the solution, if any?

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