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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is part of how this history is mis-remembered. Look at pictures of Coachella from today. You will see skinny people there, too. That's because the media and the public share (and remember) the most glamorous and sexy version of any event. It's not representative of the world - it's representative of what angle on events filters into the public memory.

I just did a Google search for Coachella 2020:

[img]https://dazedimg-dazedgroup.netdna-ssl.com/2849/azure/dazed-prod/1280/2/1282244.jpg[/img]

[img]https://www.travelbeginsat40.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Coachella-Valley-Music-Festival-2016_ChrisMiller.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i.iplsc.com/-/000B2629B8659UJ5-C122.jpg[/img]

You're not getting the full view of humanity by looking at the pictures still being shared of Woodstock, just like youre not getting the full view of humanity by looking at the pictures the media is sharing of recent Coachellas. I hope you understand that![/quote]

PP doesn't think those girls are skinny, that is the problem.[/quote]

Well, 4-5 of them are definitely not skinny.  They would be size M-L in the 70s-80s.  That doesn't mean that they are fat, or obese, or of unhealthy weight.  But they are not skinny.[/quote]

Exhibit A: The problem ^^^[/quote]

What are you talking about "the problem"? Those girls are a nice healthy size but they aren't skinny in the way people used to like in the 70s and 80s. Bodies have changed. That's what this whole thread is about. [/quote]
Dp. Thos girls are fat. Probably would fall near the obese category, two in the middle.[/quote]

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