What will be the "turns out cigarettes are bad for us" of our generation?

Sorry I misspoke, I meant there is an excess of food that offers little besides saturated fat, and sugar to our diets without, say, significant vitamins or dietary fiber. Being actively sold at us every day. Is that not true?

Yes you can work chips into a healthy diet, and potatoes have vitamin c but that's not the point I'm trying to make. There's a guy who dieted on hostess cake, sure, but it's harder because it's not filling and no one is arguing it's healthy. And nobody is doing that so its not the point.

Nutrition education was not something I received in my public education, besides learning to bake snicker doodles. I'm glad it has changed but that is why I quantified with "as far as I am aware".

I am not trying to sound like an expert, just trying to present what appears to me to be a problem in an educated way... On an opinion thread... On reddit. I could have said "cats" so there's no need for you to be rude.

And clearly I received no nutrition education, which was part of the problem I'm presenting.

If you want to contribute, perhaps you could add your 2 cents as to why you think growing obesity is a problem (or not).

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