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[quote=Anonymous]People have crazy views of the 1970s.  I didn’t know anyone that smoked and certainly not anyone on amohetamines.  People mostly ate crap—so much processed, cheap meat, few fresh vegetables.  All the kids at school brought chips and things like ring dings for snack.

But eating out was expensive—even McDonalds or Denny’s was sort of a treat, so I don’t think people ate out all that much.  And I think there were fewer food additives.  For instance, soda used sugar until the mid 80s, when they switched to HFCS.  That’s one example but there were a lot of switches to more artificial things as time went on.  (I don’t even like ring dings anymore—they changed the ingredients at some point and lost the deliciousness.)

The other big thing is the hormone imitating chemicals that come from all the single use plastics and other chemicals in the environment.  It has totally reset everyone’s biology.  I exercise a LOT more than my mom (who never exercised a day in her life and never walked anywhere) and eat a LOT better food (fresh veggies, olive oil, etc.), yet I am much heavier than she was at my age.  And she never smoked a day on her life.[/quote]

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