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the thing is, it takes a decade of delay for this to set in because fast-food and other harmful food like substances are much more harmful in child hood. So, i
by pascalxus 7y ago
the thing is, it takes a decade of delay for this to set in because fast-food and other harmful food like substances are much more harmful in child hood. So, if you were raised descently well on normal food until your 20s, then started eating horribly, it's not nearly as bad as if you started eating horribly in your childhood.
We can see this clearly in China. The older generation seems to have some resistance to junk food in terms of weight gain: this is why asians have a reputation for remaining slim, even if they eat junk food. But, it's not due to their genes: they were simply lucky enough to not be introduced to those bad foods until their adulthood.
If you look at the newest generation in China in the cities, their obesity rate is skyrocketing at an extremely high rate.
- zzzcpan 7y ago> because fast-food and other harmful food like substances are much more harmful in child hood How so? Growing children can probably handle a lot more junk food and sugar without any consequences than adults.
- graeme 7y agoThey mean that if you do overwhelm your metabolism or fail to learn motor skills as a child, you may be ruined for life. I know some people who just hate exercise. I think they has no habit of movement of any sort. Likewise, people who were fat or weak as a child have no baseline sense of what it feels to be healthy - and neither do their bodies cells. So kids can handle more sugar, but if messed up the consequences are worse.
- pascalxus 7y agoAddictions are more severe, the earlier they happen.