Because Americanized modern foodstuff crap encroached kids diets since the 90s there too...

This is a barely covert racist hit piece.

>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.

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.

"archeological evidence"? As if what Romans ate has any bearing on the italian diet of the last 3-4 centuries?

>It was around this time that the World Health Organization classified alcohol as a carcinogen, for which there is no safe level of use

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.