“Today, we buy half as much fresh milk per person, but five times more yoghurt, three times more ice cream and – wait for it – 39 times as many dairy desserts. We buy half as many eggs as in 1976, but a third more breakfast cereals and twice the cereal snacks; half the total potatoes, but three times the crisps. While our direct purchases of sugar have sharply declined, the sugar we consume in drinks and confectionery is likely to have rocketed (there are purchase numbers only from 1992, at which point they were rising rapidly.”
Further reading brings clarity.
More Kcals were consumed because the sources were higher protein and fat, which have a higher calorie density while having a lower glycemic impact. Less glucose = less insulin = less obesity.
Fung 101.
It’s all tied to insulin, and the thing that has the biggest impact on insulin is stress (cortisol). The biggest impact on cortisol comes from sleep or lack thereof.
So of course between 1976 until now people have endured more and more stress. Also what has a big impact on stress is diet (obviously), and a diet that facilitates proper hormone function (meat and eggs) will help with stress.