Dr Alan Desmond

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206 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna · What your doctor isn’t telling you about food · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

You had about a one in ten chance of living with obesity.

Five decades later, that had increased to a one in three chance of living with obesity.

And in twenty twenty six, sixty percent of adults are living with obesity or overweight.

It's not that our

genetics changed.

They absolutely didn't change in just 50 or 60 years.

It's not that people got lazy and self-interested.

It's that our food environment transformed dramatically.

And this, like I said earlier, this standard Western diet has now become the global standard diet.

And most of the foods that are marketed to us are not marketed to us with health in mind at all.

They're all about profit.

Yeah.

That's right.

You know, we could be uh the the luckiest humans who've ever lived.

That's the very first line in my book.

And the reason we could be the luckiest humans who've ever lived is because for most of human history, Claire, humans could expect to live for about thirty years.

That was the kind of maxed out life expectancy, about thirty years.

Now, in the last century and a half, thanks to modern medicine

Antibiotics, antivirals, vaccination, sanitation, surgery, modern medicine, and better food security, our outlook has been completely transformed.

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