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I used to drink milkshakes in the UK, I never got "obese" either.
Perhaps it was because I used to get outside a lot, fishing, playing competitive sports, walk to school till I got a second hand bike given to me, fat chance of being a lounge lizard as the tv was not allowed to be turned on till my dad got home from work.
Tax the parents of obese kids, and leave the shakes alone...
Edit: typo
Well, here on this forum, if someone said ‘tax the obese’ there would be outcry.
Especially when so many T2s are obese because of the insulin resistance they have, not because they are eating any differently than the non-obese.
So why is it OK to shift the blame onto parents? Especially when those parents are probably also insulin resistant, and making food choices based on the same cultural, social, economic and media pressures that everyone else makes?
Children who have insulin resistance are (like adults) less likely to want to play sports. Whereas those without insulin resistance are not likely to get obese in the first place.
They are now the third? fourth? generation brought up with increasingly processed foods, dietary misinformation, and growing insulin resistance. Might as well blame the grandparents, or the great grandparents. After all, they are the ones who listened to Ancel Keys and transformed farming and food manufacture towards the current trends - and they taught their children to be less active and eat the modern way.