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If you want to see how ridiculously bad it's gotten, look up footage from streets and malls in the '70s and '80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmWTHCHHzZY

It's like not that there are fewer overweight people, they're virtually impossible to find. Today I feel like almost anywhere you look there are people with such problems it's affecting their gait.

I don't think it's constructive to blame the people that have gotten fatter. It really doesn't add up that all these hundreds of millions of people collectively at the same time lost their resolve and and willpower. Seems far more convincing if there are environmental factors at play.



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