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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Ha, yes. I was in high school in the late 80s and can remember many girls just bringing a can of Slimfast (remember that?) to lunch and that was their breakfast and lunch. Then as the ads said, they would go home and have a "sensible" dinner. Many of the diet products that were meant for adult women were being consumed by teenagers, often at their mothers' approval. Or forcing yourself to throw up or cigarettes. Because what could be worse than being overweight? Chad wouldn't ask you to the prom, you know.
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PP here and yes! Between Slimfast and Jenny Craig, I was constantly dieting as a young teen. And I eventually started bingeing (and purging) because I was freaking starving (but also deeply ashamed about it.) These posts recommending policing portion sizes make me a little twitchy. [/quote]

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