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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean, why were people in the normal BMI range, contrary to now, when two thirds of adults are overweight or obese?

Because there wasn't as much junk food back then. People cooked more from scratch, and their parents had fed them normal portions, not ginormous portions, so they'd grown up knowing how much food is normal.

Today, most children in the US grow up with no knowledge of what a normal portion should look like, and perhaps no knowledge of how many meals to consume a day, and even what constitutes a meal, since adults around them are snacking all day, and encouraging them to snack. Junk food occupies the majority of most supermarket aisles, and some of it is less expensive and easier to prepare and eat than healthy carbs and vegetables. We are in a diabetes and cardiovascular disease epidemic, and every taxpayer pays the burden of their, and other people's, bad eating choices.

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My mom was under 100 lbs barely over when pregnant. She was not at a "healthy" weight.[/quote]

How tall was she? What is a "healthy" weight?[/quote]

5'3" I'm not making judgements on what is or is not healthy but she didn't look healthy. Her nickname was her name - bones[/quote]

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