Why you and your kids are fat

If you are, in part, it’s because you’re eating too much food. (Graphic from New York Times.)

The average American increased his or her food intake by more than 10 percent over the last 35 years. That 1.8-pound increase includes half a pound of additional fat, the highest gain in any food group. Worse yet was most of this fat was from cheese, cream cheese and sour cream, all saturated fats with cholesterol, especially when produced by fatter cows fed more grain and less grass.

Second highest was grains, which would be great if it were whole grains, but 90 percent of what Americans eat there is refined grains with no fiber. And corn, which is lower in fiber than whole wheat, etc. had the highest grain increase.