Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueSky  All this could simply mean that, because of their genetic makeup, many people people don't become insulin resistant in spite of their lifestyles. The incidence of insulin resistance and T2 diabetes has increased too quickly over the last 30 years for for the explanation to be defective genes. The finding of the study in question makes pretty good sense to me.  |
I'm still not going with the default argument that a huge segment of the population have just chosen to become fat and lazy... let's not discount what else has changed over the past 30 years or so:
* widespread use of plastics in food preparation and storage,
* reduced nutritional value of fruits and vegetables due to farming methods... pesticides, burned-out soil, fecal contamination etc...,
* increased use of antibiotics, growth hormones and feeding (herbivorous) animals the remains of other animals!
* increased pollution of our air and water,
* increased UV rays reaching the surface pf the planet,
* massively increased portion sizes and easy access to fast foods with multi-billion dollar advertising including marketing to children,
* increased use of trans-fats and HFCS in just about every processed food product,
* government subsidies to corn farmers so that HFCS is even cheaper and more widespread... especially in cheaper processed foods which tend to be bought by lower income families who tend to be the ones gaining weight,
* social and urban planning seems to have left sidewalks and parks out of the equation when building new sub-divisions... encouraging a car-culture
...
I'm not looking for excuses, or someone else to blame for my excess pounds but I am sick of people suggesting that, "it's easy... just exercise more and eat less". I am trying to make sense of why I, and so many others have gone down this road. I certainly question which came first in me... the weight gain or the BS dysregulation
