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Shadow1980 said:

Lawlight said:

Wrong. You just ate less calories than you expended. Simple as that. You gained weight because you ate more.

Pretty much. Increases in obesity rates correlate very strongly with increased caloric intake over the past four decades:

There's a pretty clear causal factor, too, with calories consumed vs. calories burned and weight. Excess calories can cause weight gain. People are eating more and not exercising enough to compensate, thus an increase in obesity/average BMI. Since single data points are apparently acceptable in this discussion, I'm slightly above average height and am a little underweight according to standard BMI metrics. I don't get as much exercise as I need, but then again I don't eat a lot. My total daily calories almost never exceeds 1500, well below the average calorie intake of an American male and at about what you'd burn off just sitting on your ass all day. I'm not a big eater, so I'm not a big person.

I'm quoting this here, because of the excercise part. The thing is, that at the same time people have been getting more and more fat, they have excercised more and more...

That's because your body works the way that it compensates excercise by eating and not the opposite. It is also why athletes don't die in hunger.

 

Oh, and about the graph; also, while the energy intake have been growing, people have been eating less and less fat.