Originally Posted by
NutLoose
There was a programme on ages ago that stated the U.K. populace was at its fittest post ww2 as rationing was based on the ideal intake per human being, a sort of countrywide optimum nutrition exercise.
Thread drift of the worst kind, but at the same time as rationing was ending, the food industry was learning how stuff "empty" calorific content into products via highly processed (i.e cheap) foodstuffs. The less you pay for calories, the worse it is for your health, so intentionally or not, we have made it easier for those who are the least able to make intellectual compromises between health and cost, to invariably make the wrong decisions about their diets. As for McDonald's and their ilk, the less said the better.