‘Millenniums’ set to become heaviest generation ever

If you define junk food as food which is low in nutritional value and relatively high in fat, sugar and salt, then the problem is satiety. Generally, such food is low satiety.
It doesn’t make you feel full, so you go on eating more, and consuming more calories, than if you had consumed something of equal calories, but high satiety.
I accept that not all food that people dismiss as junk food has low nutritional value, but the junk food which tends to be eaten as snacks rather than main meals often is.

True Baggs our bodies have evolved to make do wth what little was available. Now there’s a glut of food.

I think that all the time it’s cheaper and easier to get ready meals that go into the oven or microwave, people will buy them and enjoy eating them!
If we can’t teach our children to cook, can we at least teach them about nutrition, calorie counting and sugar content, plus the fact that a ready meal chicken curry (seemingly a popular meal) can have so much fat content in it, that a heart attack is waiting around the corner.
I’m so used to looking at labels as my DDs and GCs are vegetarians, but I’m amazed at the number of calories that are in some foods.
However, it seems that nobody particularly worries,our receptionist at the local hospital is extremely overweight as are some of the nurses, if they can’t watch their diet, who can?
On a personal note, I used to squeeze into a size 14 with a well known store, now it swamps me, have I lost weight ? Nope.but I’m now a size 12. Yaaay.

People are getting heavier on average because they eat more than previous generations ever have. Food is easy and abundant and we have not yet evolved to cope with not having to struggle for enough to eat.

I think the guff about it being the fault of 'junk' food is just guff (perhaps even junk). The fault is excess.

This is not to blame people. It is a comment on how I think things just are between human beings and their food supply.

I think plus size is the new norm and big bums look at Kim Kardashican, in my young days it was does my bum look big in this and shame and horror if it did not supersize my bum because I want it to be big

We have to accept now that big is beautiful, now.
I'm surprised really, considering how many gyms and exercise classes there are, that people are getting bigger.

Possibly Nonnie. Or do you think we’ve made being ‘plus size’ the new norm?

It must be our fault, everything else is! Actually I wonder if there is some truth in that? Have we over-indulged the next generation so they have no self control and feel entitled? They can't look forward and only look back and complain? Fortunately my children and grandchildren are very fit and no overweight unless you include the one who is not yet crawling and is lovely and chubby!

I wonder whose legs they are?
Do they get permission?
I live in fear of seeing my belly wobbling past on a news report.

Oddly enough ninny this was the photo on the BBC website about the report.

It's mostly young women I see who are fat, morbidly obese, legs like tree trunks some of them have while the boys, young men in their skinny jeans have lovely slim legs. Stop eating junk food have a bit of pride in their appearance would be a start.