Obesity rate nearly triples in the United States over the last 50 years

> The CDC notes that 71.6 percent of Americans fit the criteria for being overweight

Scary number along with:

> The percent of the U.S. population that is overweight has remained roughly constant since the early 1960s. But taken in combination, the proportion of citizens fitting into either category has grown from about 55 percent in the early 1990s to almost 72 percent today.

I’ve seen numerous reasons attributed to this: the subsidization and proliferation of HFCS and the related villainization of fats in the 70s; the reduction in wages and rise of two-worker households (no one to cook at home); increase in consumption of processed foods that introduce various “unnatural” substances (e.g., micro plastics) in the body; etc.

Seems like a multifaceted problem and not one that will soon be solved.

I think the food is to blame, mostly. Modern food is engineered by scientists to be addicting.