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The obesity you see now seems odd, but it must be due to the processed foods so many people eat. So many people don't appear to know how to cook using fresh ingredients, so they resort to all these horrible processed foods.

That's true - it's the whole push to eat grains and more grains, most of it processed into products that are barely even "food-like".

The article pointed out that it was a very rare gene:

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A fat gene which makes an adult six times more likely to be obese has been found by scientists.

Around 1 in 6,500 adults, or around 10,000 people in the UK, are thought to have the faulty version of the BSM gene, also known as “Bassoon”.

That's probably equivalent to the extremely rare obese individual we'd see back in the 60's.

I remember exactly one girl in school who had a serious weight problem. She probably had that gene.

There were a few others who were various degrees of chubby compared to most. But there was no widespread obesity like there is now.

Their chubbiness probably had a lot to do with the junk food that was already available back then. Some had more access to junk food than others, and happened to be more sensitive to the carbs than others. Those are the ones who ended up chubby back then.

With UPFs so widespread and readily available now, it's no wonder we have so many who are overweight or obese.