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If you have no thoughts on it then move along to something you do have thoughts on, thanks in advance.
The point is that this type of lifestyle is so normal now whereas only 100 years ago this actually didn't exist in most of the world and was definitely not normal. 
I think this is really interesting and definitely the result of our love of convenient food that is often highly processed and stripped of anything nutritious.
Even more importantly I think it shows the power the lobbying industry has on us nowadays to push their agendas to keep consumers in the dark about what is really healthy. Ie: the sugar industry rejecting that sugar consumption has any link to obesity or diabetes.

*edit- I'm not talking about just fast food you pick up im also talking about foods we think are healthy like juice, spaghetti, low fat, artificial sweetners, food colorings..

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Nowadays people have minimal cooking skills, and lets face it, not only is fast food convenient but it also tends to taste better so of course people are going to want to buy that than to take the time to cook a healthy meal. Because of the fat and sugar content, unhealthy food has literally become an addiction.

I love the show My 600lb Life, it really shows how much of an addiction food is. 90% of the people on the show pretty much only eat fast food, they don't really cook or if they do cook it's unhealthy. Also, the thing that I've noticed about the show is that most if not all of the family members are obese as well. It's genetics as well as environmental. And it's strange because the person trying to lose weight will modify their diet, but often the family members will not even though they too could lose weight. It's as if they don't notice or don't care.

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Fast food is convenient. Most people have to work crazy hours of work just to afford an apartment let alone a house. Who has time or energy or money, to cook meals everyday?
Plus it doesn't help that we don't know how the groceries that we do buy has been treated. All the pesticides and antibiotics and hormones in all of our produce and meats attribute to it.

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I think fast food can become a problem if you let it..... however my grandmother raised her own cattle, chickens, pigs, goats, and grew a huge garden and cured, canned or froze everything to get her by for the winter. Plus they hunted deer, squirrel, rabbits and birds for meat. The woman RARELY ever ventured inside of a grocery store for food and never ate fast food. If she did drive an hour into town they would eat at a restaurant that offered homestyle cooking.... She didnt bake as they never had the money for desserts and sweets. Yet she still had diabetes and was extremely obese. She worked herself hard every single day. At 93 years old she was still climbing trees in the orchard to pick fruit. So while yes we all know what poor food choices can lead to, that is not always the case. I havent had fast food in 6 years, we don't do any frozen foods like chicken nuggets or French fries.... yet here I am with diabetes too....

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Eating at home and cooking are rare. I enjoy cooking from scratch and get teased by my friends for being "domestic" because I make my own spaghetti sauce, pizza crust and things like that instead of opening jars or using boxed items. But manufacturers sneak sugar into everything-sauces, condiments, even chicken broth. I've done the Whole 30 three times and it's taught me to read labels, if nothing else.

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My husband and I talk about this all the time. I think one thing is that women work now. Back then, cooking and cleaning was their job whereas now, women (and men) go to work and come home looking for the simplest way to eat. The sad thing is, there's easy homecooked meals you can make, you just have to look. I work at McDonald's and I am shocked at the amount of people we serve just at our location. Both hubby and I are health conscious so we eat pretty well. The unfortunate part is that to be healthy is expensive. Heaven forbid you want to cook with quinoa.

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The difference between then and now is that processed junk food is abundant and accessible. Since it's quick and convenient, people don't cook nearly as much as they should, and they have no idea what their nutritional needs are. It doesn't help that people are more sedentary as well.

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It definitely has something to do with fast food being so readily available. Also technology is taking over and less and less people actually do stuff! I was talking to my grandmother and she said only the rich people were fat back in her day. So it may also have to do with the financial aspect of things of then and now as well.

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