Article from The Independent "maintaining a healthy body weight is now more challenging than ever"

incisron

nvmomketo wrote: »

Grab your popcorn.

Too high in calories and fat.

segacs

incisron wrote: »

nvmomketo wrote: »

Grab your popcorn.

Too high in calories and fat.

Not if you use an air popper and add toppings selectively and sparingly. I lurve me some popcorn.

And yes, the 80s were all about margarine instead of butter, foods high in trans fats, and the popularization of the microwave (along with a proliferation of microwavable TV dinners, and the short-lived idea that we could replace the oven and cook all our food by 'zapping' it). Not to mention a generation of latchkey kids making dinner for themselves 'cause mom and dad were both at work when they got home from school.

If you believe the media hype, all of us who grew up in the 80s should be dead now. But we're still here. So...

ElJefeChief

stevencloser wrote: »

nvmomketo wrote: »

But couldn't the foods we eat affect hormones, organelles and organs beyond what would normally be expected. I know energy doesn't disapear or magically get burned up, but my guess is that some foods will raise our "calories out" making it easier to lose weight, and some foods will lower TDEE in some.

In 1988, I would guess we ate fewer highly processed foods and pseudo foods. I would estimate we consumed less soda, and snack bars (protein bars weren't really around yet). I would also guess that we eat out more now. In the late 80's we rarely ate out and had fast food as a treat maybe once per month, laregly because the fast food places were not as easy to access.

I don't think it is far fetched to think the food we eat could affect our health which would affect our weight.

I'm not old enough to tell you your assertions about the 80s and earlier are wrong, but from what I heard others say, highly processed foods might have been used even more than now.

Yeah margarine was all the rage back in the 80s.

To repeat what others have said - people in the 80s lost weight easier because they had less labor-saving devices than they do now. When we wanted to watch movies in the 80s, we had to get up and load a DVD or VHS tape in a machine. When we wanted to look up a phone number we had to walk over to the phone book. When we called someone we had to walk over to the phone and dial it. Now we can do all of these things from a couch, and so much more.

nvmomketo

incisron wrote: »

nvmomketo wrote: »

Grab your popcorn.

Too high in calories and fat.

LOL Too high in carbs!

hamlet1222

Bit thin that article, not sure how it changes anything. Yes, many things influence people's metabolism, but it still comes down to energy consumed < energy expended. As scotty would say: "you can'ne change the laws to physics"

CasperNaegle

Seriously losing weight is hard.. It's still calories in and calories out.. always has been always will be.