You make my case for me
@dannyw. It's not being fat that causes diabetes but the food we are encouraged to eat making us fat while giving us diabetes. It's probably causing diabetes in naturally thin people too.
During my couple of years testing after eating I was surprised at how many foods are made of just flour and/or sugar. Even some famous gravy granules. Also there is scant understanding of what "Healthy Eating" means. If you ask five different people you get five different answers as well as the famous NHS plate.
Food is always going to be 'chicken and egg' (no pun intended)
I could go back to preparing food the way my mother used to, down to the shop every morning, prepare the fresh veg, cook the meat, carve, serve, do something with the leftovers etc. It would be even better to go back to my grandparents, and grow it in the allotment, and keep their own chickens.
The only problem is my wife works all day.
So, she either works, as do I, and we buy food that's been grown for us, and prepared.
Or one of us quits, and goes back to the old fashioned full time job of running the house.
Also the fast food suits the commute to work, and the packed lunch. (My father used to come home for his lunch time)
Same with the kids, their school is further away than mine was, more kids stay dinners, how much should we pay for them?
How much extra would fresh food, delivered daily, and prepared at the school cost.
So what came first, fast food, that meant we could all commute, stay at work, both parents work, afford to buy prepared food, or did all that come first, and we changed our lifestyle to utilise it?
I lean towards the food being developed to fit into our lifestyle.