Go to youtube and look at the videos from the 50’s. People were skinny then. Look at the Soul Train videos. Even the black teens were skinny. Look at pictures of our soldiers during WWII. They were very skinny.
Last week I was out in Southern California. I have never seen so many fat teens and early 20’s women. And they were wearing skin tight clothes and covered with tats. It was interesting - none of them seemed to be aware that they were grossly overweight. Granted, many of them were Mexican and that’s a genetic thing but it can’t be healthy.
Look at the “fat woman” (or man) in pictures from turn of the century freak shows. Today, you can’t swing a bag of donuts in a walmart without hitting at least 10 people who would make them look svelte. And it isn’t just this country. Something has happened in the last few decades to cause people to get a lot fatter.
Yes they were. They were doing highly physical work on limited calories.
In the fifties you burned a lot of calories just living. And while calories were not as limited as they were before and during WWII they were not as easily accessed as they are today.
Now things that took energy to do can be done with the push of a button if even that is needed.
Let's just look at what it took to pay the phone bill. You went to the bank, stood in line, took out the money, went to the phone company, stood in line, paid your bill.
Today the money is taken out of your account without you lifting a finger.
In the fifties you burned off at least a hundred calories paying the phone bill. Today, zero.
Nonsense. We are a far different population than we were in the 50’s. I lived in the 50’s and the only Mexicans and Negroes I saw were in the moviews. In fact, the non hispanic white population of the US was 87% in 1950. Today it is less than 61%.
People are healthier, more fit, and live longer than ever before, doomsayers cries notwithstanding.