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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Jogging" became a craze in the mid to late 70s.  The author of the book that started the craze was Jim Fixx.

I was born in 1969 and grew up in Fairfax County.  I can think of fewer than a dozen truly fat (iand that's the word we used) classmates from ES - HS.  That's it.  They are memorable because it was so unusual to be overweight back then.

My parents smoked.  Most all of my friends' parents smoked well into the 70s.  And my friends' moms who smoked were all thin-to-skinny, come to think of it.

Clothing sizes changed.  Call it vanity sizing, but my teenager big sister was so excited when she could finally wear a size 3.  Together, we shopped for small teenage sizes of 5/7/9.

[b]The ideal "model" figure was a "perfect size 8" which I don't even know the equivalent of today.  Maybe a 6?  It wasn't outrageously slim or tiny.[/b]

Emphasis back then was on an altogether different figure type for women.  Small waist, "nice bustline" and consider that no women were particularly muscle bound or "cut."  Think flat stomach v. A six pack.

Guys, young and older would walk around shirtless.  Can't recall seeing any guts or rolls.  [/quote]

It was a "perfect size six" in the 80s. Don't you remember the Wakefield twins? lol. Now it's more like a two or zero.[/quote]

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