The root of the Fatpocalypse was the decision of the US government to ASSume that cholesterol  in arteries had to come from cholesterol in food, and that this "clogging" was the cause of heart disease and heart attacks. SFAIK, they are still looking for the link between food cholesterol and body cholesterol all these decades later, AND there's now reason to believe that cholesterol in the arteries was made by the body to patch minute holes and tears : It's a healing or at least a repair response.  But in 1977, the government released a statement suggesting people avoid red meat*, full fat items like butter (margarine or "spread"-shudder!-suggested as replacements) and fill up on "healthy carbs" .(There's another one for the Oxymoron List : Jumbo Shrimp. Military Intelligence. Obedient Dachshund. Healthy Carbs). For a brief time, the jogging/jazzersize/exercise "fads" of the late 1970s-late 1980s was able to keep the devastation wrought by this advice within check, but by the late 1980s, I was already seeing clothes being "vanity sized" ; the first one I noticed was Spiegel. I stayed the same weight and measurements, but I shrank from a 6 to a 4, and it's only gotten exponentially worse : I have found pants marked size 0 that I was able to take on and off without unbuttoning and unzipping (I am 5'3"/110 lbs, 35.5 hips-25.5 waist, which is hardly twiglike). Anyway, the US government's idiocy (or deliberate evil, making people fat and unhealthy for A more profits for the Drug Empires, and B, making damn sure there would be no further fears of revolutionary violence, as was seen in the late 1960s through 1974ish) has lead to a horrific increase in obesity, diabetes, and God only knows what other health problems that can directly be linked to that 1977 paper and press release. Not just here: Since 2000, China has seen a 1200% increase in Type II diabetes, as more Chinese can afford to switch to a western diet. No, I did NOT add on an extra zero.  *Strange how control freaks then and now always target the eating of red meat by nobodies and the non wealthy, now citing "greenhouse gasses"/"global warming". It's almost as though they want to keep the best food for themselves, while touting bug eating for the 99% . Seriously, kiwifarms did a 20+ page post collating all the news articles from the last few years touting insect protein as a way to "Save the Environment!"  You know, other people get to eat bugs so THEY can gorge on kobe beef and the like.  Since noticing this , I've made a point of barbecuing once a week. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/the-food-that-can-feed-and-maybe-save-the-planet-bugs.62607/page-22