Veganism.........................
Being masculine is discouraged/shut down by much of modern society. The boys don’t have a full time dad, and they’re programmed by leftist women in schools. No exploring, no adventure, no Boy Scouts (who would have believed this 30 years ago???), etc. etc. Men have been culturally neutered. Their physiology follows their new place in this rather messed up civilization. Take these kids, band them up into troops in a Boy Scout Camp for 30 days, and then test again. Voila! (A theory...)
Being masculine is discouraged/shut down by much of modern society. The boys don’t have a full time dad, and they’re programmed by leftist women in schools. No exploring, no adventure, no Boy Scouts (who would have believed this 30 years ago???), etc. etc. Men have been culturally neutered. Their physiology follows their new place in this rather messed up civilization. Take these kids, band them up into troops in a Boy Scout Camp for 30 days, and then test again. Voila! (A theory...)
All the things mentioned so far most likely are a contributing factor. No different than the obesity levels we now have across the country and first world.
It is especially dramatic when you see pictures of people at Coney Island in 1972 vs 2022. People are FAT now.
This is due mostly to inactivity and diet(food and exercise).
When we were kids in the 1950s-1970s even into the 1980s we played outside. We played pickup football, baseball, hockey, tennis, golf, soccer(when the exchange students from Venezuela visited), basketball, badmitten, guns, cowboys and indians, stick ball, handball, frisbee, etc. We went to the beach or the pool or the river/lake in summer. We skied in the winter or rode snowmobiles.
We rode bikes without helmets all day long(be home by dinner). Then, be home before dark. Eventually, be home before 11am(do you know where your children are?).
Now, what do kids do? They play on their devices. IF, they play sports, it is only organized where mom/dad drop them off and pick them up.
When I was 16 I mowed four lawns. All for widows. I rode my bike(10 speed) 2 miles to get to one ladies house. then rode home. The others were closer. Three houses were all adjacent. I started with one. Then the house on either side hired me.
I inherited that job from another local friend who got a job sweeping floors at Bethlehem Steel for $10/hour. He had gotten it from another older friend. I passed it down to another neighbor kid when I went to college.
Today, it is really hard to find a local teenage boy that even knows HOW to do physical labor. I BLAME THEIR FATHERS.