Regarding "What makes people fat?", I feel like there are few charts as damning as the one [0] halfway through TFA showing a spike in obesity rates that coincides nearly perfectly with the introduction of the modern USDA Food Pyramid.

The quote below it sums things up nicely, imo:

> Dr. Michael Eades: “A few years ago, I went back and pulled some labels off some feed sacks in a farmer’s coop and ran them through my little nutrition computer and there’s virtually no difference in the macronutrient composition that farmers use to feed animals to fatten them up and that the USDA uses to tell us to supposedly slim down.”

It is truly insane how we continue to act as though anything other than drastic carbohydrate intake reduction will fix the American obesity epidemic. We've been eating way too much flour and sugar for decades now.

[0]https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...

A bit of a warning: Substack is doing this thing where it lets you read for a good 10 minutes or more, and then puts up a "pay us to see the rest of the article" blurb. Pretty gross.

Actual title is "The shady Story behind why we think Veganism is healthy".

This page mentions Seventh Day Adventists only once at the end, and doesn't mention onanism at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯