Comment Re:Here's a radical thought (Score 5, Informative) 398
You're missing two key things though...
1) Back then we were not subject to corporate-controlled science. The biggest example was when "Big Sugar" backed up Ansel Keys, the guy who blamed dietary fat for obesity, and buried John Yudkin, the guy whose research showed increase in sugar was a problem.
2) The food we have now, and I am talking in your normal mainstream grocery store like Kroger, is nutritionally different than those exact same foods in the era you cite. Factory farming has switched the focus to quantity at the expense of quality. Farming practices shifted to this as well which is one reason why antibiotics are failing (because we loaded animals with them to produce more meat and such), crop rotation is not used as much as it should be which depletes the nutrients in the soil, etc.