Photos of Jersey Shore from 1979/80--No fat people! Ok a couple. ,,, Global Obesity Crisis

I started doing some research and got distracted reading. lol

Here are some factoids:

----Monsanto scientists became the first to genetically modify a plant cell in 1982. Five years later, Monsanto conducted the first field tests of genetically engineered crops.

-----In 1985, Monsanto acquired G. D. Searle & Company, a life sciences company focusing on pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and animal health. In 1993, Monsanto's Searle division filed a patent application for Celebrex,[31][32] which in 1998 became the first selective COX‑2 inhibitor to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).[33] Celebrex became a blockbuster drug and was often mentioned as a key reason for Pfizer's acquisition of Monsanto's pharmaceutical business in 2002
-----1985: Monsanto purchased G. D. Searle & Company for $2.7 billion in cash.[44][45] In this merger, Searle's aspartame business became a separate Monsanto subsidiary, the NutraSweet Company. CEO of NutraSweet, Robert B. Shapiro, became CEO of Monsanto from 1995 to 2000.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

So, Monsanto starts to modify our whole food production system, making food harder to digest. They start pushing apartame which is a neurotoxin, dumbing people down. They also start pushing pharmaceuticals to get folks drugged up.

Fat was around then, it just didn't go to the beach. These days no one is embarrassed about showing their fat bare ass on the beach.

Plus all the pics/video's/tv crap shown to us these days(almost inevitable to not notice)

But I don't know what is worse: to hide yourself being embarrassed or to show yourself at the beach...

Before the days of disco there were a lot more fat people and they were wealthy and beautiful.(Rubens)

Ages ago nothing was added to any food and people were also fat. Just because they loved a good meal and liked to be lazy...

Btw I never see fat people in 'real life', only on media.

Guess you never visited a US Walmart...

No and I wouldn't even if I had the chance...;-)

So it's Walmart's fault people get fat? Or it's the fat people's fault Walmart does exist?

Are there any other stores in the US than Walmart?

(only heard of this one)

haha - for some reason, they seem to congregate at Walmart. Who knows? Maybe because Walmart offers so many free hover-rounds for them to ride in. Do the stores offer hover-rounds for shoppers where you live?

Cocaine and disco kept us slim in those days.

Obesity became rampant starting in the late 80's, which is around the time low-fat foods became more common on store shelves.