Weight gain in the American population 1960-2000

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79. As for carbs--please be careful not vilify them all!

I've been a vegetarian for a million years (well, 37!) and I have no nutritional deficiencies. I know you can go 2 ways on the meatless diet: either very healthy or processed carbs and crap food. I favor fruit, veggies, yoghurt, artisan cheeses, beans and nuts. I drink roasted, ground beans and fermented grapes as well as lots of H2O.

While I don't believe humans were meant to be veggie, the meat being sold to us in the 21st century is nothing like what we ate in the stone age. You can say wheat is Frankenfood, but with the growth hormones and antibiotics in animal products, I'm happy to consume a plant-based diet. Food production and how it gets to our table is so many ways of wrong! Navigating the minefield is stressful and confusing--and the nutrional snake oil salesmen are just dying to sell you one miracle after the other.

I hate the whole industry. We're fat cuz those n power are making shitloads of $$$$$ and ultimately controlling us by imprisoning us in our own bodies. Until it's no longer lucrative, don't expect anything to change in the near future.