Between 1985 and 2010, average daily caloric intake rose by eight percent, while diabetes rates rose by 727 percent. Clearly, total calorie consumption cannot explain the meteoric rise in obesity-related diseases. Researchers discovered that it’s the increase in total fats and carbohydrates specifically that’s causing the massive weight gain in people around the world. It’s the combination of fat and carb that causes metabolic disruption. The only food on Earth that is both a fat and a carbohydrate, is sugar, which includes both sucrose (regular table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup—both of which contain both glucose and fructose. Your body metabolizes glucose and fructose in two distinctly different ways. Fructose is metabolized much like alcohol, and damages your liver and causes mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction in the same way as ethanol and other toxins.
It is not just what people are eating and drinking that is bad for them, it is inactivity! People are so lazy that they use electric scooters when they are not handicapped, they just don't feel like walking! Golfers use golf carts to get from hole to hole instead of walking and call it a sport! Kids watch TV more and play video games instead of getting outside to play. Kids have been taught in school to sit down, be still, and stay that way until school is over or they will get in trouble. It is not good for anyone to sit all day, especially kids! The body needs exercise to stay healthy. Nutrition does help, but it alone won't get you healthy.