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+1. For my other two countries, I chose Japan and France. In the United States, the total calorie intake has gone up since 1961 going from about 3000 kcal to 3800 kcal. In Japan, the total calorie intake rose from 2400 kcal to 2900 kcal in the 1980s, but since then it has gone down to about 2700 kcal. In 1961, France had a total calorie intake of about 3100 kcal which rose to about 3600 kcal in 2000 and has stayed about even with that since.
+2. Most of the increase in total calories consumed in the United States has come from an increase in calories from fat. Animal protein and carbohydrates have risen a little, but plant protein has largely stayed the same since 1961. In Japan, the calories from carbohydrates has gone down from about 1800 kcal to 1400 kcal since 1961. The amount of fat did increase until the 90s, but since then it has stayed more or less the same. calories from animal and plant protein have also not changed much since 1961. In France, the calories from carbohydrates have dropped a little along with a small increase in calories from fat. Similar to the other two countries, animal and plant protein has largely been the same since 1961.
+3. All three countries that I looked at have seen some amount of increase in the amount of calories gained from fat, and this is likely due to a rise in processed foods throughout the world that contain a higher fat content than more organic or whole counterparts. The United States saw a much larger increase in the amount of fats consumed though, likely because there are many more fast food chains here, and there are many companies that have focused their efforts on the United States market and advertised processed food to the population. All three countries also didn't have much change in the amount of calories gained by plant or animal protein, possibly because changes in diets over the last 50 years have been focused more on fast food, junk food and sweets rather than meats, fruits or vegetables. This is probably why the carbohydrates and fat calories are changing the most, since these newer types of foods mostly contain calories from those sources.
+4. The second chart that I chose was the "Share of dietary energy supply from fats vs. GDP per capita." This chart is a graph with GDP per capita on the x-axis and the share of dietary energy from fats on the y-axis, and it plots each country on this chart based on these two statistics. The size of the circle for the country also represents the population of that country. This graph shows a pretty clear positive trend meaning that the more GDP per capita a country has, or generally how wealthy it is, the higher amount energy its population gets from fats. I wasn't very surprised by this information, since more developed countries will generally have diets composed of more processed foods leading to a higher fat intake. There is also an option to see the data animated over time, and it is sad to see how most of the countries are trending towards a higher amount of energy from fat in their diets.