Global Obesity Doubles
It's a symptom of malnutrition, not a character flaw
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The chart above compares the rising rates of worldwide obesity, with the rising rates of animal protein consumption.
So first to clarify, by animal protein, I mean anything that came from any animal—birds and fish included; breast milk included, eggs included.
You can see from the chart that that the two rise in tandem.
Animal products are calorie-dense. They have lots of calories in a little space. (So do ultra processed foods, by the way, and we’ll discuss that below.) So if you eat enough of them to fill your belly and trigger your satiation response, you’ve by necessity eaten about triple the calories you should have in a day. When we eat more calories than we use, our bodies squirrel away for hard times. Our muscles store a little, and our livers store a little, and a little lives in our blood for quick access, but they can only hold a small amount of the extra. Most of it is converted to lipids, the best way our bodies have to store energy long term.