![]() ![]() Exercise as a leisure activity was largely unheard of in the 1970s. First, what caused it? The fact that this epidemic is both global and relatively recent argues against an underlying genetic defect. There are many puzzling aspects to this obesity epidemic. Instead of global hunger and mass starvation, we face an obesity epidemic, unprecedented in human history. Global cooling has long ceased to be a serious concern, but global warming and melting polar ice caps dominate the news. Instead, some 50 years later, we find ourselves facing exactly the opposite problems. I wonder if Time Magazine thought one of the 51 things we should do is to become a penguin… The major environmental concern was global cooling due to the reflection of sunlight off dust particles in the air triggering the dawn of a new Ice Age. At that time, there were serious Malthusian fears that the world’s population would soon eclipse the world’s food production and we would face mass starvation. My younger self would have been utterly shocked that today, obesity has become a rising, unstoppable global phenomenon. ![]() I grew up in Toronto, Canada in the early 1970s. ![]()
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