“There are WWII vets who fought at Normandy who would disagree with this, those men had courage to face those German machine guns facing down on them on Normandy beach.”
....point well taken!.....however, the other night I was watching a WW2 documentary on the History channel....it was about how America had to gear up for war after Pearl Harbor...the old news reels were interesting because they showed the men standing in line down at the induction center....they were in their skivies and not a man looked over weight....compared to today’s men they looked downright skinny....I remarked to my wife that they really didn’t look like men of today....maybe that’s what the author of this story was getting at....we are a lot bigger, heavier and more sedendary than 60 years ago...it’s startling when you look at the old news reels....women too, BTW.
When I was in high school sixty years ago, and we had more than 600 students, the biggest guy on our football team weighed 230 pounds. Then it dropped down to about 190. Looking at the annuals, few girls were over 140. Even among adults, there were few fat people. It has only been during the past thirty years or so, I swear, that there have been so many fat people.