health and fitness: Lean times: why was it easier to lose weight in the 80s?

mardi 6 octobre 2015

Lean times: why was it easier to lose weight in the 80s?

A new study has found that those consuming the same calories and doing the same exercise were heavier in 2006 than in 1988 – another reason for millennials to resent their parents

It may be the final straw that kicks off intergenerational war. Hard-pressed millennials already resent their parents’ generation for their free university education, generous pensions, higher employment rates and ownership of mansions they bought for £18.50.

Now it turns out baby boomers even had it easier when it came to dieting. A new study has found those consuming a given number of calories were 10% heavier in 2008 than 1971.