LOL, Bruce Jenner ate Wheaties, look what happened....
Posted on 11/29/2019 9:11:07 AM PST by PeteePie
By my own experience, the prevalence of food availability, increase in convenience, wide availability of high-calorie foods, habit of snacking, food portions - have all increased greatly over the last 30 years.
What nonsense.
What do they mean by “same amount”?
Portions are much more nutrient-dense today, primarily because of High Fructose Corn Syrup.
People were thinner in the 50s and were thinner in Southern Europe until recently and they “STILL ATE CARBS” you Keto fetishists.
Old Economy Steve ate at McDonald’s almost every day, and he still somehow had a 32-inch waist.
Uh, hate to break it to the snowflakes but ...
High fructose corn syrup. Nutrisweet. Sterile wheat. A plethora of additives that preserve foods so they will stay on the shelf longer but won’t. digest easily. The food is less nutritious than it was. It doesn’t satisfy so people eat more.
But those tended to be more complex carbs which are more slowly digested. They weren’t munching on candy bars and Big Gulps.
Yeah. It's probably all self-reported, so who knows how accurate it is.
They were on the phone but back then they had to get up, walk to the phone, pull the wire back to another room and rinse and repeat for every call. That used calories.
I think there's a lot of truth here.
I was hot back then.
Today, I get hot walking to the mailbox.
The total meat consumption statistic is off. In the early 1900s, most meat was locally produced. Their statistic comes from meat shipped. That skews the statistics.
“The data from the early 1900s, which is what McGovern and others used, are known to be especially poor. Among other things, these data accounted only for the meat, dairy, and other fresh foods shipped across state lines in those early years, so anything produced and eaten locally, such as meat from a cow or eggs from chickens, would not have been included.
And since farmers made up more than a quarter of all workers during these years, local foods must have amounted to quite a lot....
...The English novelist Anthony Trollope reported, during a trip to the United States in 1861, that Americans ate twice as much beef as did Englishmen. Charles Dickens, when he visited, wrote that “no breakfast was breakfast” without a T-bone steak. Apparently, starting a day on puffed wheat and low-fat milk—our “Breakfast of Champions!”—would not have been considered adequate even for a servant.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-americans-used-to-eat/371895/
As a Gen Xer myself, they do have a point.
Tuition adjusting for inflation was vastly cheaper in the 70s than it is now.
Houses as measured by % of average wages were also significantly cheaper than they are now.
We also had not imported an absolute flood of cheap labor via illegals for blue collar workers or massive abuse of H1b and other such work visa programs for white collar workers. Of course this has depressed wages just as the Cheap Labor Express crowd intended.
There hadn’t been much outsourcing so there were lots of pretty well paying blue collar jobs in factories.
The stock market grew an average of 20% per year from 1980 until 2000. Anybody investing then got a bonanza.
I don’t say any of this to demonize Baby Boomers or blame them for everything.......but damn, y’all got a better deal than those who followed in many ways. When Millenials complain they’ve got it tougher......it’s true. They do. Yes, technology is much better today but economic conditions for younger people especially aren’t better. They’re worse.
Not only that, this younger generation is the Medication Generation. They are all on something for Anxiety and Depression. Add some weed to that and they have no idea what they ate an exercise is something they talk about doing. They want to work out but their Anxiety won’t let them. They talk about Suicide all...the...time.
In the 80’s, corporate restaurants started offering enormous portions of food. Huge portions loaded with sugar and salt. Often times one would be served enough for three or four. Other chains followed suit, and now we eat like hogs. Mom didn’t feed us that way growing up. There weren’t as many fat people. I remember one or two tubbies as kids in school. It was the exception. Now they want to normalize obesity rather than reverse it. Another thing that didn’t help was the high carb government “food pyramid” that came into vogue back then.
I was watching AVANTI (Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills) last night and Mills, playing an overweight Brit, asks “How do you Americans stay so slim”? The film was shot in 1970. Mills does a nude scene. Check out what was “fat” in 1970.
LOL, Bruce Jenner ate Wheaties, look what happened....
Look no further than the increased use in all products of high fructose corn syrup and all of it’s derivatives. Add the jumbo sizing of drinks, meals and portions and violà you have a great herd of cattle.
Every restaurant in my area at 6:00 just about any day of the week has at minimum a 20-30 minute wait.
Everyone eats out more today and food portions are crazy.
Every gas station has a snack shop now so you go on a get a treat or sandwich etc.
Back in the late 70’s 80’s I would change the oil in my car. Cannot remember when I changed my own oil last.
I truly believe the fake sugars wreck havoc with your body.
It all adds up.
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