[philwelch]

That’s mostly due to obesity, which is a consequence of the quantity and (flavor) quality of food getting better over time; a side effect of economic prosperity.

[Sterm]

If food is killing more people than it used to that's not an improvement in food.

[philwelch]

If you have so much food even the poorest people can get fat, you are a richer and more prosperous society than 99.9% of human history.

Btw obesity is rising in Europe as well.

[r00fus]

s/economic prosperity/lack of regulation/

Palm oil is in everything in the US, in France there's a lot more lighter oils and butter.

[philwelch]

The obesity epidemic hasn’t spared France either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_France

[actionfromafar]

You meant getting worse.

[philwelch]

No, I didn’t.

Obesity is a side effect of having so much food that calories are cheap and plentiful. That’s why obesity rates are rising everywhere in the first world. It’s also something virtually unprecedented in human history.

[actionfromafar]

And it won't last. Fossil fuels make up almost all fertilizer.