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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not read the entire thread but back in the 70's, 80's and 90's all kids in public schools were normal weights.  Even kids in poorer areas of Maryland were normal weight.  In my classes we probably had 1 student who might have been 10 or 15 pounds heavier but there was not the morbid obesity of today.

Students and families maintained their weight by eating 3 healthy meals a day.  We did not have snacks between meals.

Girls did sports but not at the level of today.

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Sooo many girls I went to high school with in the 90s had eating disorders (including myself). Childhood obesity is a huge problem, don’t get me wrong, but can we stop romanticizing this time where adolescent girls were supposedly effortlessly thin. Whether it was constant dieting, bulimia, anorexia, cigarettes … girls have been harming themselves to stay thin for a long, long time. [/quote]

Yeah but today we also have epigenetic factors that we are only beginning to understand, plus our every day lives may or may not (there's conflicting data on this) include less routine activity than in the 1980s - certainly it includes less routine activity than in the 1950s when most families only had 1 car or even earlier.

The upshot is that a person who consumes the same calories as her mother did back in the day will likely weigh more, and the weight difference isn't in muscle.[/quote]

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