A brief spoken commentary linking the modern rise of sedentary jobs to increased availability and consumption of high-calorie processed foods. The speaker argues that a historical shift from manual labor and whole-food portions to sedentary lifestyles combined with cheap, mass-produced processed foods creates a "perfect storm" negatively impacting health and eating patterns.
And the third thing that really impacts us is what we're doing now sitting at a desk. You know, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago, we were doing a lot of physical manual labor, and then we would eat. And during that time, we were not eating the portion sizes or the types of food that we have available now. But now we have a lot of sedentary jobs, sedentary lifestyle, with high calorie processed foods that we have evolved to want to eat. And of course, those are cheaper because we can make them at a faster scale in larger quantities than growing peaches. Right. So it's like this perfect storm.
