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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many obvious reasons:

1) Take out/Eat Out culture didn't exist.  I can count on one hand the number of times we ate out, versus eating at home.  We went to our special restaurant once a year- maybe!  Also the snack food industry was 1/4 of what it is now.

2) Nothing to watch on TV since we only had 5 channels - 4,5,7,9 and 20.  After Brady Bunch and Gilligans Island what was there to watch!

3) and yeah I guess a lot more people smoked
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This. We rarely went out to eat, maybe once or twice a month.

Portions were smaller at restaurants, even fast food restaurants.

More movement to do everything, and most middle class people did their own lawn work and some cleaning, even if they had a cleaner.

There were fewer chemicals in food. If you look at American brands soldin Europe and the same.brands sold here, they have a lot more preservatives and fillers here.

As a kid in the 70s and 80s, we might have one afternoon snack before dinner. No snacks at school or at most activities at all, unless they replaced a meal.

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