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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the 60s and 70s.  I am 50.  We ate junk food all the time.  Twinkies, super sweet cereal, cokes, Kool-aide, ......  We weren't fat because we were active all the time.  It really is that simple. [/quote]

Yes.

The 70s diet was horrible compared to today.

[b]But most families had only one car so people biked and walked many places. We spent all day outside playing, running around, climbing trees, swimming.

Most people did not have AC so inside was HOT over the summer.

And lost of adults smoked in addition to being more active[/b].[/quote]

OMG no.  I was a child in the 70's.  I never heard of a single family that only had one car, that would have been very strange.  I lived in a middle class suburb and everyone had AC.  And no, most people did not smoke. [/quote]

I was a child in the 1960s.   We had one car, almost no one had two cars, quite a few families had no car.  We had AC in only one room[b].   But we lived in an outer borough of NYC.[/b]

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This probably has a lot to do with it.  Many families in NYC still don't have two cars.  In the suburbs, it was the norm to have 2 cars and A/C, and my family was more lower middle class than upper. [/quote]

Untrue.

Read the factual census data posted earlier.

Most households in the 70s did not have 2 cars. Only 1/3 of the households had two cars and those were mostly not middle class families.

Most households did not have central air in the 70s. Some had window units. Many had no AC at all.[/quote]

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