Fatness, solved.

I have solved the enigma of fatness epidemy that has taken over first the American proletariat and has spilled over all the world, including my corner in Kever Benjamin City. Simply put, food quality has improved exponentially. That's all.

In my childhood, mothers were desperate to force their children to eat, because all of the children were skinny, anemic and sickly. And not only the children, adults were also always diseased, cold, spitting yellow-greenish asquerosidades, feeling tired and weak. People joked when drinking that alcohol was the best to kill the worm, and in fact, intestinal worm infestation was widespread. Low level food poisoning was common, we were forbidden to eat in the street or eat unknown food. My father loved to stop and buy chorizo sandwiches from street vendors followed by complaints of stomach aches and vomiting. People would not recognize what we ate then: the bread was heavy and dry, potatoes that were small and bitter, apples always had a worm wriggling inside. Cold chains were unknown, ice was brought for the ice but it can be said with confidence that most food we ate was spoiled in different degrees. We bought the hen in the market and my mother selected with care the healthiest, fattest looking bird. We butchered it at home, and the price pieces like the liver were fried with the fat and divided among the family members. The liver portion for each one was microscopic. Chicken bones were strong and big, and the meat was hard and scarce. Every part was processed and consumed. I am sure that fecal bacteria was swarming on everything, since the fields were fertilized with human and animal excreta. We were not specially hungry, but we were mostly weakened by parasites and diseases, and food quality was similar to what today can be found only in rotting landfills. And we were upper middle class in Hungary and rich in Argentina. We ate the best money could buy then.

Everybody was buying some kind of fortifying drink, like the bitters with iron supplements (against iron deficiency, anemia, which was widespread. See pic.), and quina (against intestinal worms). My parents fed me fish oil.

My children have never seen a worm in an apple and health regulators order immense quantities of food to be destroyed after "ate by date" arbitrary limits. In America, I have read with astonishment, all the lettuce produced by some farm were retired and destroyed not because some fecal bacteria was discovered alive on the leaves, but because it was suspected that the bacteria may be found in an adjacent field. The cleanness, the purity, the freshness and the quality of the food is so high that people has no parasitical infestations at all, they are very healthy and extremely well fed. And fat.