Not a rural and urban thing, but the main consumption of energy, consume more energy to eat more, consume less energy to eat less, rural people in general the intensity of labor naturally consume more energy to eat more, not to accumulate energy, but to replenish the energy more, so it will not get fat. City people also do the same physical labor people do not have a boat
Why rural people generally eat more than urban people, overweight not more than the city. You get city people doing physical activity for a month instead of taking diet pills and doing more than taking diet pills. So rural people have more stamina, consume more, and must eat more to replenish their energy to work. City people have no physical energy, consume less, and have fat build up in their bodies, and over time, more exercise is good for their bodies.
The problem with overweight people in the city now is that they have less activity, less physical strength, no plus leisure, the middle-aged and elderly people who dance in the square now, if he goes to the construction site to work for two months a year, every day carrying bricks and mortar, will they still be overweight? (William Shakespeare, Hamlet,) (Even if they square danced every day, it would be Huck dancing! Also disturbing the populace!
And why didn't people in the 5.6.70s weigh much? Because, manual labor was done every day in those years and the food was bad, so there were very few overweight people back then!
I'm a farm boy and have lived in the city for many years, but I still eat a lot and have never been overweight, so it can't be explained by the amount of labor or lack of nutrition. So I personally think it should be accounted for in the following ways.
The amount of labor of rural people is much larger than that of urban people, sometimes even exceeding the limit. Especially in the era of backward agricultural machinery. Because of the large amount of labor requires greater energy, so the meal size is easy to understand, the rapid consumption of energy does not make the body over-accumulation of energy, so overweight rarely occurs.
In general, both now and in the past, the rural food structure is generally lower than the urban, which makes a difference in energy intake. The body needs the same amount of energy, and rural people need to take in more food, which is the law of balance.
This is often overlooked, but the facts are important. The reason for this is that rural people have more space to live in, the natural environment is much better than in the cities, and the fine traditions of hard work and peace of mind enable rural people to maintain a better existence. Urban public **** resources are better than rural areas, but move less throughout the day, and pollution and life stress also influence people's habits in a subtle way. Although urban people are very health-conscious, but more and more people do morning exercises, practicing late, but the relatively cramped environment is still from the root of the change in the life of urban people. Fundamentally, born in nature to live in nature, away from nature will be distorted is absolute and inexorable.