I was fed formula. I have no allergies.

We are in agreement

Not a historian, but wasn’t that boom hugely from war profiteering and the fact that none of the bombs went off in the USA? Our factories were all spun up and ready to go while most of Europe was rebuilding. Oh, and the decimation of German and Japanese industrial or technical powers.

But to your point, many graphs showing how much wages have flattened disproportionate to production do show that the period in question was a better time for the average worker.

Format your cells to be text and there should be no data related behavior like you describe.

Just because a rock falls down doesn’t mean it “naturally follows” that some rocks fall upward too. There is no way to invoke a system that stores excess energy as fat if there is no excess. Could some energy that is actually needed get stored as fat? Okay, but… Not for long, as the body would need energy, since it isn’t getting calories. Unless it is getting calories from food.

I went from 175lbs to 125lbs in four months during divorce proceedings. My metabolism didn’t change. I wasn’t on a new miracle drug. I was depressed and didn’t eat, and I took up running a 3.2mi circuit around the bay where I live.

To your point, I bet OP’s diet would help you bulk up, just not likely with muscle. Chow a few gallons of ice cream each week. Eat American fast food three to ten times a week. Put cheese on everything. Ignore the “added sugars” part of the nutrition label. My weekly intake fits in a single shopping bag. I doubt OP can say the same. They weigh 2.5 times my weight.

Willpower is much harder to muster for a whole year, and its exceedingly difficult to avoid bad calories in this country.

ETA: Ozempic isn’t prescribed because doctors found patients whose bodies are non-conformant to the basic principles of caloric intake. It’s because doctors know patients have no willpower, and its likely the only way they will accept to lose weight.

And our bodies are just machines. We can’t create fat if were using the calories we consume. I don’t really get anyone who “tries” to lose weight for years. If you keep putting more food in your body than you need, your body converts it to fat. The idea of since “strange reason” that a body won’t lose weight is silly. There’s just no way for a body to keep weight on unless they are taking in more calories than they are using. So if OP can’t bear to eat less, they need to get really active. There really isn’t a mystery here. Its math. If you only add to the equation, the figure only increases. This is a willpower issue. … Or maybe we found the one obese American whose body defies caloric mathematics.