Some interesting points made here <span class=”atwho-inserted” contenteditable=”false” data-atwho-at-query=”@Za”>@Zack-Vegas</span>. A few others that come to mind would be the widespread use of pharmaceuticals within the populations of the countries that have the widespread obesity issues.
At the risk of sounding redundant just looking at glucocorticoids, these were able to be synthesized in the fifties and like so many other drugs toad were quickly approved and distributed wider for use. By the early sixties though there was a significant number physicians reporting many non therapeutical side effects, including but not limited to weight gain, glucose intolerance, hypertension, and tissue calcification. Rather than remove the product from the approved list they chose to lower the dosage levels as well a limit their use to emergency purposes. By the eighties though they began a campaign to increase glucocorticoids for other treatments along with increasing the dosages slowly so that today they are back almost to the same levels seen in the fifties.
When you take into account the amount of pharmaceuticals as well as other toxic substances that are not eliminated in wastewater treatment such as industrial chemicals and heavy metals. The cocktail of substances that enter our food chain through the waterways and waste from treatment plants that is used as a fertilizer in some agriculture operations as a form of fertilizer it provides a very different food quality compared to the turn of the last century.
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