Diet vs Weight Gain
Really interesting tidbit from the university of South Australia in light of the government’s recent unhappiness with junk-food in kid-targeted advertising and school lunches:
Professor Tim Olds continues his presentation from last year’s series, delving into data dating back to the 1880s which details the eating habits of a quarter of a million children from 24 countries. What this says defies conventional wisdom: today’s children are actually eating less than their great-grandparents did. What’s more, they eat less fat, less saturated fat and enjoy a greater variety of foods. So why are they more obese? The likely answer you’ll discover in this fascinating history lesson is that they don’t expend as much energy.
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I’d also like to know a little more about the effect of my long-time-favourite scary synthetic ingredient, trans fats – that’s a big dietary change the West has undergone in roughly the same time-scale as the ‘obesity epidemic’.