The disconcerting news of the day does not leave me surprised, alas: although it is said that once we ate less than now (when in reality it is really difficult to establish with certainty the calorie consumption of those who lived a hundred years ago), I have often noticed how a time, perhaps because industrial products were less attractive (I remember well as a child the family experiments with frozen ready meals, practically inedible, which circulated in the Eighties) and varied, we ate more and more at home. And to lose weight it took much less. In several “diaries” of famous people of fifty or a hundred years ago (writers, scientists, etc.), I happened to read hints of their diet: balanced, varied, with lunches and dinners ending in desserts, cheeses and fruit. While so many people now struggle to get back into old jeans while slaughtering themselves with 1200 calorie diets.
But so far it was just a hunch.

I say so far , because now the confirmation from a group of experts has arrived, that yes, it has discovered that once upon a time people with the same diet equal in calories and with equal physical activity had a lower BMI than their successors, i.e. an index of lower body mass. In short, they weighed less than now. Whereas, on the other hand, those who are born and grow up now run the risk of leaving already disadvantaged , because they will weigh more, and not because they eat more and are more lazy.
If you’re 25 now, scholars say, you’ll be on average fatter than an adult who grew up in the 1970s, while eating like him and moving just like him. Nice rip off! And not only. Get this: according to York University experts, who published the study in the journal Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, with the same weight loss diet and exercise , we lose less weight than those who were adults in the sixties or seventies. It didn’t take much for them. We have to suffer.

In fact, diet and sport have nothing to do with it. We tend to be more obese than in the past due to other causes.
That is: the stress of an increasingly hectic life, the greater exposure to chemical agents (in what we eat, but also in the environment), the use of more drugs and supplements, and the fewer hours of sleep, have created this “gap ”Between us and our predecessors. Making it harder and harder for us to manage a normal weight.