Comment Just look around you (Score 1) 281
Obesity, and general poor health leads to lower reproduction capabilities. Many want to have children, or.... "wouldn't mind", but they can't. Either they have no desire for sex, or they just can't do it, and when you look around in a western society, it's not surprising.
Nature is rough, it has no feelings. People that choose to destroy their bodies willingly (seemingly majority of the population) will become sick and non functioning, and even if they manage to get an offspring, that offspring may end up sick and non functioning, either by nurture, or if there are genetic changes due to generations of bad diet. Nature will take them out of the gene pool, eventually. It does not care.
It's extremely hard to eat healthy nowdays,and it's not just about makros (fat, protein, carbs) and the ratio of each, it's all the chemical compounds in many food store bought that prevent food from breaking down properly. Metabolic diseases are rampant in western society, nobody gives a fuck. Probably waiting for a vaccine for it.
I'm not quoting any science on this, and there's a lot of science on this. It's also common sense that do not require one to quote 40 peer reviewed scientific papers.
1. Exercise, resistance training and aerobic training at least every 2nd day, the older you get, this gets more important
2. Forget that following food exists:
- Canned food
- Frozen food
- Heavily processed food, such as salamis, pepperoni, certain types of cheese, sausages, etc. Most stuff that comes in a packet and has a long shelf life
- Sodas, fruit juices, or stimulants such as coffee or energy drinks
- Pizzas, burgers, sandwiches (unless made at home with quality ingredients...burgers can be "healthy" if you use real cheese, home made buns, clean vegetables, grass fed high quality lean beef) and fuckn forget about french fries and coca cola. French fries are disgusting.
Most will not do this. They will become fat, then obese, and they will normalize this behavior with their children, if any, and eventually they will take themselves out of the gene pool.
The declining birth rate is just ^ that...in effect. It already started. The nature is self correcting. Check out natality graph for any modern country, or actually for most countries... modern or not. It's going down. We reached the peak, and now are in correcting phase.
The strong survive, the weak die off.