Low budget rich. People do not have big homes. People have cheap Sour Patch candies, after washing down Big Macs with Coke.
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@DrBob2…for sure, a lot more fat folk and a lot more fast food joints than in Days of Yore.
Our last trip back….a couple of years ago….dh and I got into one of the big elevators at Heathrow and I counted 12 other folk in there. When we got out, I mentioned to husband that there’d be very little likelihood of packing that many bodies in a similar space back at DIA.
Probably the last time I saw that many lean bodies in one place for the rest of our week there!
Corporate profits trump health concerns?
There is strong evidence that the sugar industry tried to influence the science:
- In the 1960s, a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation funded researchers to publish reviews downplaying sugar’s role in heart disease.
- A famous example is a 1967 review in the New England Journal of Medicine that emphasized fat as the main culprit while minimizing sugar risks.
- Internal documents (revealed decades later) show this funding wasn’t disclosed—something that would be considered unethical today
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@SuisseBear…. and at the personal level, tastes good has the same effect. Or denialism.
I grew up in the 1950s, 60s, and attended dental school in the early 1970s. For all this 2020’s AI overview generated recall of corporate maleficence back then, folk didn’t seem to think sugar consumption was healthy in the real world. Heck, even the Food Pyramid … the one that that folk like to blame their excess adiposity on …. has, at the tippy tip, and something to “use sparingly”, alongside added fat is……SUGAR.
In fact, in the UK, John Yudkin (research heavily funded by egg and meat industries…..as if that made any difference) had a best selling book out “Pure, White and Deadly”. Recommended reading for us dental students. I can attest , it did not affect our earning capacity in coming years.
In fact, when discussing dietary habits with patients/parents of patients…..and the role of sucrose and other fermentable carbohydrates in their high caries rates…..denial that they were even eating such comestibles in the first place was the common response rather than the belief that sugar was in any way innocuous.
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Way back in the golden 1970s I read The Good Old Days-- They Were Terrible! by Otto Bettmann. Whenever I hear a nostalgic “things were so much better when …” rant, I think of that book. One of the childhood memories that sticks with me, a child of the 50s, is a kid I knew who was killed when playing with a live mortar shell his dad brought home from WW2.
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