I blame the 1950s. Just add water food, preservatives, and the shift from fresh food to boxes of stuff. My grandmother was and all 4 of her children are pretty obese and 3/5, at least, are diabetics. I have strong suspicions that the diet they were raised on condemned them to those bodies. Wasn't my grandma's fault. This was the way of the future and she had no idea how to cook (which she later became really good at) and had 3 kids back to back with another later on. She did the best she could and I'm not entirely sure it's the food to blame. Think her mom was really heavy, too, which doesn't synch up with my processed foods idea. Anyways, she lived till her mid 80s.
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