He's actually quite wrong historically. Being fat has at many times been a symbol of status. What better way to show affluence than to over-indulge when food is generally scarce? Drinking alcohol pretty constantly was the norm in the U.S. during the pre-industrial era when clean water and uncontaminated beverages were scarce. We underestimate how drunk these people were habitually. Life was generally short, they weren't operating heavy machinery and cars, and pre-machinery farming was actually a pretty miserable life.

I put this radroad guy on ignore because he does the same thing on every topic. He'll start by sounding kind of reasonable, then just gets more and more extreme and insulting. Very dull trolling.