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fuzzmeister on April 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much...

The quote at the beginning of the article implies that this was compensated for, to an extent:

"Historically people worked a lot more than they do now. They also ate a lot more than they do now."

tsotha on April 9, 2011 [–]

That is absolutely true, at least in my family. My grandfather ate more calories for breakfast than I do all day. He was thin as a rail, and I'm... not.

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