@heatheriv re:” (I will also point out that there is not to my knowledge any reason aside from conjecture to believe that Americans eat any more now than they always have. And I’m not sure that idea is actually testable because a scientific record of average calorie consumption from ~100 years ago would be necessary to compare to similar records from today, and I’m not sure such a record exists.)”
it kind of does: How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died
it’s britain, not america, and maybe you’ve seen it already, but still pretty neat (esp the bit about their consuming 50-100% more cals than we do today…)
(and yes of course they more active etc, but it’s still interesting, and lines up with the “eat/play/sleep big” stuff that comes out of 180d sometimes)