Why the Fuck is Everyone so Fat?

Because of food, most prob'ly

Persons unknown:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/

Recently caused a bit of a stir in contrarian lunatic circles with a series of articles:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/

claiming that people didn’t use to get fat, but that now they do, and that this is strange.

Medical “science” claims that this is because of sloth and gluttony.

We can discount this because whenever medicine doesn’t understand something, they blame it on the victim.

The Molds think it’s because we’re being poisoned by something. They wonder about lithium.

We can discount the idea of lithium poisoning because lithium poisoning has other effects than obesity, and we’re not seeing them.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7iAABhWpcGeP5e6SB/it-s-probably-not-lithium

But that doesn’t mean that the Molds don’t have a point.

If you see a widespread, common illness, it’s very likely to be caused by an environmental contaminant.

So, what?

It doesn’t take a great deal of research to find out that the epidemic of obesity is following the Western diet round the world.

So, something in the food then?

What?

Well everyone seems to agree that processed food is bad. But no one can tell you what it is about the processing that causes trouble.

There’s all sorts of crap in there.

First place to look, then.