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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Availability of liquid calories and snacks is so much different now than it was in the 70s and 80s. The marketing is subversive, too. "Healthy" juices and smoothies that add extra calories and more grams of sugar than is recommended in a whole day. Entire aisles in the supermarket devoted to whole grain snacks, superfoods, etc. that from a macros perspective are no different than a bag of chips. Daily starbucks runs (my parents drank black coffee, maybe some cream and a couple cubes of sugar. Think of how many people now habitually consume take-out coffee drinks instead.) Add to that better accessibility to more food in general OR less accessibility to quality foods.
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You must not have been around in the 70s and 80s. There was tons of soda, fruit juice, "fruit" juice (like Sunny D), Hawaiian Punch, Capri Sun, you name it. Starbucks didn't exist but we had plenty of junk to fill us up, even in the ye olde times. And plenty of weird diets, too.

I think you're all looking back with skinny-colored glasses.[/quote]

Yes there were all those things.  But people are also remembering correctly.  All you have to do is look at old year book class photos.  Or pictures from Woodstock, or the day Kennedy was assassinated.  People overall were thinner then.  [/quote]

Very noticable in the old Soul Train videos! :-)[/quote]

Do you really think that videos of people who were chosen to be on television because of their attractiveness are representative of the population as a whole?

Jesus you kids - don't they teach you logic and critical reasoning anymore?[/quote]

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