OT - How can it be?

[Oldbones]

Our five pound bag of sugar is now 4 pounds. Same with the flour. Our half gallon of Ice Cream went from 64 ounces to 56 to 48. Our Yoghurt went from 8 ounces to 6 to 5.3. The plastic packaging around our Girl Scout Cookies keeps growing, as the cookies fade to the middle of the package. Family size potato chips bags are shrinking. We are lucky to get 9 muffins out of our muffin boxes that used to yield 12. We now need to buy king size candy bars to get what they used to contain in the regular size. Remember when Three Musketeers were "big enough f0or a pal and you?" Not any more, pal- you're on your own.........

So, where is this obesity epidemic coming from?

 

[Sonny44]

Tiny tuna fish cans that are half water by weight,

 

[TDiNozzo]

The companies are doing all the old folks a favor.... making everything lighter for us...Too bad the prices go the other way though.

 

[ThisJustIn]

Notice the convex bottom of your Hellman's mayonnaise? Less content, bigger price... more waste 'cause more jars are created & you need to return to the store more often.

As for obesity - there have been some encouraging stats around children's obesity dropping. Maybe the message is getting through to parents/consumers.

 

[wire chief]

Now I for one am tickled to have 4 lbs, cause getting 5 in my sugar urn took extraordinary effort.

 

[BroadwayVa]

The 1 Quart of pop/soda is now 1 ltr and the half gal of soda is now 2 ltrs.

Packaging staying the same size--why? You know--stupid me!!

So, with my quantities of food getting less why is it I am getting fatter?? Could it be all those extra trips to McD to make up for what I'm missing at home??

All kidding aside Obesity is no joking matter--one cause of Diabetes. It sneaks up on you and it does more damage than nearly all other major diseases. Catch it early you live normally, almost---catch it late --lose limbs, feet, kidneys, eye sight--dialysis
for those living (you really are only surviving) are tied to machines 3 times a week.
I've lost 2 relatives recently who refused to believe the truth--they had diabetes.

 

[wire chief]

And if you do have diabetes 2, add 2 oz of almonds daily to your special diet. You'll be glad you did.

 

[diggerfoot]

Coca-cola recently announced they were putting big bucks into a foundation to spread the word that it's exercise, not diet, that is at the root of the obesity problem. This is, of course, tremendously self-serving, reminiscent of the pressure the sugar cane industry placed on the WHO. Their premise is also simply untrue. There ARE health consequences to a diet high in sugars and processed foods, obesity among them. However, they do have research to draw from and trump. Our sedentary lifestyle is also a problem and may very well be the bigger problem of the two.

 

[Bestiarius]

The perfect illustration of getting less for more is the gumball.

Gumballs once were big, and solid gum, called jawbreakers. Over time, they got smaller and smaller to the point they weren't visually appealing, so they then got bigger again - but hollow. Then the walls of the hollow ball got thinner and thinner until they were structurally ready to collapse, so they started to get smaller again but still hollow.

If today's gumball was the weight of the original jawbreaker, but made with current technology, it would be the size of Jupiter!