><i>Italy's food is supposed to be the world's healthiest. So why are so many of its kids obese?</i><p>Because Americanized modern foodstuff crap encroached kids diets since the 90s there too...<p>This is a barely covert racist hit piece.<p>><i>It’s a controversial take that has made Grandi notorious in Italy. Several of my interviewees dismissed the northern academic as an attention-grabbing sensationalist. Others, however, backed him, citing archeological evidence, Keysian exegesis and parental memories. It’s impossible to know for sure and, in a way, it doesn’t matter.</i><p>Italians do "know for sure". And even today, you can track it, and it has little to do with American diet, and more with the "mythical" mediterrenean diet.<p>"archeological evidence"? As if what Romans ate has any bearing on the italian diet of the last 3-4 centuries?<p>><i>It was around this time that the World Health Organization classified alcohol as a carcinogen, for which there is no safe level of use</i><p>The kind of alcohol average Italians traditionally drunk (mostly wine), and the way they drint it, has little to do with US-style alcohol consumption. And areas with the fewest cancers and highest longevity had no issue consuming it. "Despite of it". Sure, if you don't understand the lifestyle aspects of diet.