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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did they walk a lot? Or drive?

Were gyms a big thing?[/quote]

There wasn't more walking -- at least not in the suburbs. There were no gyms in the 60s-70s; the only people who had any kind of formal gyms to work out in were high school/college athletes. I don't know that grown adults did much in the way of exercise -- though there's always some who walk or run; women started to do the various exercise shows that were popping up on TV.

People just ate less. 3 meals a day and that's it. And the meal was enough to serve one -- not enough to serve 3-4 people like the meals you get now. There wasn't the culture of snacking all day long. I work in an office and [b]I STILL don't understand why my coworkers who work sitting down 8 hrs a day need snacks of hummus or string cheese or almonds bc protein is SOOOO important. It's like a pipeline of snacks and thus a pipeline of calories which does not replace the 3 meals but rather supplements them (too much) now[/b].[/quote]

The reason people snack all day while sitting down for 8 hours at work is [i]because [/i]they're sitting down 8 hours a day at work.  Boredom, drudgery, boredom.  [/quote]

Yes but people worked in the 60s-70s as well; the jobs were just as tedious and the American work week has always been 40 hrs/wk. Yet people didn't need hummus or nuts ALL DAY LONG. Somehow they survived without the constant protein . . . .[/quote]

The reason why they did not snack all day was because they smoked all day. At work, at schools, at their desks and while rocking the baby to sleep. All. Day. Long.

Heck, my dance teachers smoked in class all through the 70s. They stopped sometime in the 80s.

Everyone smoked.

The portions were smaller but the food was crappy: cambells casseroles, lots of fried food, chips, cookies, really sugary drinks and snacos, koolaide, Vess soda, TV dinners every night, processed everything.

Our food choices and preparation is SO much better than what people at in the 70s.

We are fatter because #1) portion sizes #2) lifestyle (sitting on our asses or working more sedentary jobs and #3) most people do not smoke any more.

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