Anonymous
07/02/2018 10:32
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Anonymous wrote:Complex question. I know.
Please share your theories as to why.
All of the hormones and hormone-like substances we get from plastic, can linings, fire retardants, food additives, etc.
Many people ate horribly in the 1960s and 1970s, and plenty of people had air conditioning.
The difference is that, even if we were more polluted with lead, we were less polluted with artificial hormones.
Anonymous
06/30/2018 05:24
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Weight Watchers was founded in the 1960s. I went to my first WW meeting in 1976, when I was 12, in Austin, Texas. And there were PLENTY of overweight people there. I attended on and off through the Seventies. My parents were big fans of Weight Watchers, having watched their weight during the Sixties and Seventies. Do you think there were not people taking diet pills, dieting, and having issues with their bodies before, OP?
Who do you think Freud's patients were, in the 1890s to 1930s? These were women with, among other things, eating disorders and neuroses around food.
You act as if, prior to to 1995 or some mythical time frame, no one had an effed up relationship with food, dieted, or overate. You've got to be kidding me.
Who do you think Freud's patients were, in the 1890s to 1930s? These were women with, among other things, eating disorders and neuroses around food.
You act as if, prior to to 1995 or some mythical time frame, no one had an effed up relationship with food, dieted, or overate. You've got to be kidding me.
Anonymous
06/30/2018 04:25
Subject: Re:Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Roller Disco kept people from getting fat?
Anonymous
06/30/2018 04:23
Subject: Re:Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Smoking, typical food wasn't so crap, more women were still at home raising kids and cooking better meals, and no computers/phones to make people sit and stay still for hours and hours and feel somewhat productive while they surf internet forums.
Anonymous
06/30/2018 04:01
Subject: Re:Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
I grew up in the late 60s and 1970s. The biggest differences in eating I recall are that we ate out so, so much less back then than a typical family does today - really just on “special occasions” like birthdays, and adults did not snack and kids snacked a lot less. The restaurant part alone is huge because portion sizes are much larger in restaurants, and the more you get used to that, the larger your portions become at home, too. We definitely ate junk food although really I don’t recall my parents eating it, just we kids. And yes kids were more active but it seems that OP is mainly asking why adults were more thin back at that time.
Anonymous
06/30/2018 03:12
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, where exactly are you getting your premise that everyone was so thin back then? Are you looking at photos or movies or something? I was alive then and I remember seeing people of all sizes, with plenty who were on the heavy side.
I lived in a pretty international neighborhood, with a lot of immigrants from various countries, so that might have affected the looks of the people I sàw regularly. But even still, we were out and about in many places and I saw a wide range of sizes of people everywhere we went.
OP, are you out there? Can you give some background on what you're basing your ideas about how people looked in the 60s and 70s? Thanks!
LMAO that you've ignored streams of data of how much fatter we are and asking OP to verify it.
This is a totally different point: how much fatter we are. No one is debating that. What is being questioned is the notion that the entire population was very thin in 1970. Do you see the difference in those two points?
No there have always been fatties. There are just more now.
But the OP said that people of all ages were so thin during the 60s and 70s. We're asking what that assumption is based on.
It's not an assumption. It's a fact which has been studied for decades. One example of reporting research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/12/look-at-how-much-weight-weve-gained-since-the-1960s/?utm_term=.49540e50ed9a
You are not posting any information about people being very thin in the 60s and 70s. You continue to post information about how fat people are NOW. Do you really not see the difference???? There's a difference between people being fat now and people being very thin in the 70's. Is this not clear to you?
NP. are we reading a different article? The one PP just posted has a very clear graph that shows how much heaver the average woman has gotten since the 1960s/70s. What exactlya re you looking for?
This article says the average woman weighed 140 in 1970. How is that very thin?
Yes, how is 140 lbs. "so thin"?
Maybe a better question would’ve been why the average woman weighs so much more than they did just a generation ago.
But that is not the question OP asked. OP asked specifically "why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?" A number of us have been pointing out that people were not actually "so thin" during those decades.
People were thin. Perhaps where you and some others lived who keep saying the same thing there was a community of fat people and that is your view of the world. You were ahead of your time by being fat back then, eating garbage, and not exercising. Now we've all caught up to you. Amazing that you are also unable to distinguish between the weight difference over time. A 160 pound male four decades ago would be considered thin by today's standards.
So you think of 140 lbs. as "so thin"?
Anonymous
06/30/2018 02:08
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Who only had one car? We were totally middle class and both my parents always had their own car. My mom would never have been cool with my dad having the only car and taking it to work every day while she stayed home with us kids. That’s ridiculous. I was born in 1968.
Anonymous
06/30/2018 01:37
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, where exactly are you getting your premise that everyone was so thin back then? Are you looking at photos or movies or something? I was alive then and I remember seeing people of all sizes, with plenty who were on the heavy side.
I lived in a pretty international neighborhood, with a lot of immigrants from various countries, so that might have affected the looks of the people I sàw regularly. But even still, we were out and about in many places and I saw a wide range of sizes of people everywhere we went.
OP, are you out there? Can you give some background on what you're basing your ideas about how people looked in the 60s and 70s? Thanks!
LMAO that you've ignored streams of data of how much fatter we are and asking OP to verify it.
This is a totally different point: how much fatter we are. No one is debating that. What is being questioned is the notion that the entire population was very thin in 1970. Do you see the difference in those two points?
No there have always been fatties. There are just more now.
But the OP said that people of all ages were so thin during the 60s and 70s. We're asking what that assumption is based on.
It's not an assumption. It's a fact which has been studied for decades. One example of reporting research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/12/look-at-how-much-weight-weve-gained-since-the-1960s/?utm_term=.49540e50ed9a
You are not posting any information about people being very thin in the 60s and 70s. You continue to post information about how fat people are NOW. Do you really not see the difference???? There's a difference between people being fat now and people being very thin in the 70's. Is this not clear to you?
NP. are we reading a different article? The one PP just posted has a very clear graph that shows how much heaver the average woman has gotten since the 1960s/70s. What exactlya re you looking for?
This article says the average woman weighed 140 in 1970. How is that very thin?
Yes, how is 140 lbs. "so thin"?
Maybe a better question would’ve been why the average woman weighs so much more than they did just a generation ago.
But that is not the question OP asked. OP asked specifically "why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?" A number of us have been pointing out that people were not actually "so thin" during those decades.
People were thin. Perhaps where you and some others lived who keep saying the same thing there was a community of fat people and that is your view of the world. You were ahead of your time by being fat back then, eating garbage, and not exercising. Now we've all caught up to you. Amazing that you are also unable to distinguish between the weight difference over time. A 160 pound male four decades ago would be considered thin by today's standards.
How tall was the average woman?
Anonymous
06/30/2018 01:34
Subject: Re:Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Much of what has already been said but for a lot of people today high calorie drinks they get often at places like Starbucks play a big role. Empty calories that are regularly consumed by many but mostly didn’t exist in the 1960s & 1970s.
Anonymous
06/30/2018 01:19
Subject: Re:Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Cigarettes
Lack of antibiotics in food chain (farmers have known for years that you fatten livestock with antibiotics)
Longer sedentary work hours
Smaller portions
Far less use of antibiotics generally
No snack culture
Shorter working hours
Lack of antibiotics in food chain (farmers have known for years that you fatten livestock with antibiotics)
Longer sedentary work hours
Smaller portions
Far less use of antibiotics generally
No snack culture
Shorter working hours
Anonymous
06/30/2018 00:24
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Anonymous wrote:Kids also didnt snack non stop back then. sorry, kids do NOT need snack after 45 min of soccer. These are five year olds and are basically just standing aroud anyhow on the field. The snack culture in america is out of control.
A parent after my own heart!
I got the stink eye for telling my kid he couldn’t have a cupcake after his soccer game. The same soccer game where he spent most of it standing around. The one where he sat down for five mins on the field to tie and retie his cleats. Yeah, no cupcake needed, Barb. He’s gonna make it the 2 hours until dinner. Will not succumb to starvation!
Anonymous
06/30/2018 00:13
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, where exactly are you getting your premise that everyone was so thin back then? Are you looking at photos or movies or something? I was alive then and I remember seeing people of all sizes, with plenty who were on the heavy side.
I lived in a pretty international neighborhood, with a lot of immigrants from various countries, so that might have affected the looks of the people I sàw regularly. But even still, we were out and about in many places and I saw a wide range of sizes of people everywhere we went.
OP, are you out there? Can you give some background on what you're basing your ideas about how people looked in the 60s and 70s? Thanks!
LMAO that you've ignored streams of data of how much fatter we are and asking OP to verify it.
This is a totally different point: how much fatter we are. No one is debating that. What is being questioned is the notion that the entire population was very thin in 1970. Do you see the difference in those two points?
No there have always been fatties. There are just more now.
But the OP said that people of all ages were so thin during the 60s and 70s. We're asking what that assumption is based on.
It's not an assumption. It's a fact which has been studied for decades. One example of reporting research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/12/look-at-how-much-weight-weve-gained-since-the-1960s/?utm_term=.49540e50ed9a
You are not posting any information about people being very thin in the 60s and 70s. You continue to post information about how fat people are NOW. Do you really not see the difference???? There's a difference between people being fat now and people being very thin in the 70's. Is this not clear to you?
NP. are we reading a different article? The one PP just posted has a very clear graph that shows how much heaver the average woman has gotten since the 1960s/70s. What exactlya re you looking for?
This article says the average woman weighed 140 in 1970. How is that very thin?
Yes, how is 140 lbs. "so thin"?
Maybe a better question would’ve been why the average woman weighs so much more than they did just a generation ago.
But that is not the question OP asked. OP asked specifically "why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?" A number of us have been pointing out that people were not actually "so thin" during those decades.
People were thin. Perhaps where you and some others lived who keep saying the same thing there was a community of fat people and that is your view of the world. You were ahead of your time by being fat back then, eating garbage, and not exercising. Now we've all caught up to you. Amazing that you are also unable to distinguish between the weight difference over time. A 160 pound male four decades ago would be considered thin by today's standards.
PPs are being so pedantic. It's obvious OP meant so thin (relative to today).
Anonymous
06/30/2018 00:08
Subject: Re:Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Some is genetics. I come from family where women were heavy....even in the 1960s and 1970s. My mother in 70s lose 100 lbs in a year and gained it back in a year and then repeated the pattern 4 times.
And yes I have food issues, but doing better thank you. I wasn't fat back in mid 70s when I graduated high school but she made me think I was.
And yes I have food issues, but doing better thank you. I wasn't fat back in mid 70s when I graduated high school but she made me think I was.
Anonymous
06/29/2018 23:38
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, where exactly are you getting your premise that everyone was so thin back then? Are you looking at photos or movies or something? I was alive then and I remember seeing people of all sizes, with plenty who were on the heavy side.
I lived in a pretty international neighborhood, with a lot of immigrants from various countries, so that might have affected the looks of the people I sàw regularly. But even still, we were out and about in many places and I saw a wide range of sizes of people everywhere we went.
OP, are you out there? Can you give some background on what you're basing your ideas about how people looked in the 60s and 70s? Thanks!
LMAO that you've ignored streams of data of how much fatter we are and asking OP to verify it.
This is a totally different point: how much fatter we are. No one is debating that. What is being questioned is the notion that the entire population was very thin in 1970. Do you see the difference in those two points?
No there have always been fatties. There are just more now.
But the OP said that people of all ages were so thin during the 60s and 70s. We're asking what that assumption is based on.
It's not an assumption. It's a fact which has been studied for decades. One example of reporting research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/12/look-at-how-much-weight-weve-gained-since-the-1960s/?utm_term=.49540e50ed9a
You are not posting any information about people being very thin in the 60s and 70s. You continue to post information about how fat people are NOW. Do you really not see the difference???? There's a difference between people being fat now and people being very thin in the 70's. Is this not clear to you?
NP. are we reading a different article? The one PP just posted has a very clear graph that shows how much heaver the average woman has gotten since the 1960s/70s. What exactlya re you looking for?
This article says the average woman weighed 140 in 1970. How is that very thin?
Yes, how is 140 lbs. "so thin"?
Maybe a better question would’ve been why the average woman weighs so much more than they did just a generation ago.
But that is not the question OP asked. OP asked specifically "why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?" A number of us have been pointing out that people were not actually "so thin" during those decades.
People were thin. Perhaps where you and some others lived who keep saying the same thing there was a community of fat people and that is your view of the world. You were ahead of your time by being fat back then, eating garbage, and not exercising. Now we've all caught up to you. Amazing that you are also unable to distinguish between the weight difference over time. A 160 pound male four decades ago would be considered thin by today's standards.
Anonymous
06/29/2018 23:22
Subject: Why were Americans of all ages so thin during the 1960s and 1970s?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just this morning in the Metro, I observed a tourist family of 5, parents and 3 kids. And, except for the baby in the arm, all 4 were on the obese side of the scale. The two, what looks like an elementary aged kids, were finishing up a 7up bottle.
It may be a special occasion and the parents allowed it, but in my household, we never drink soda. Its water or tea (unsweetened).
I was thinking, obese really starts from that young age? Pumping so much sugar from that soda cannot be healthy to the kids....
People ate pretty unhealthy back then too. I had a sugar cereal for breakfast, kool aid multiple times a day, hostess snack in my lunch and usually a dessert after dinner -- root beer floats were my favorite. And I was always skinny and still am. my theory is a combo of:
1. Hormones and antibiotics in our food supply is messing up our gut bacteria.
2. More sedentary. I used to play outside running around or on my bike from when I got home around 3:30 to dinner time.
3. More processed meals and eating out.
4. Larger portion sizes.
Btw - we don't buy soda now but I do let my kids have it at a restaurant occasionally. I think making it forbidden fruit is worse. I have family members who were not allowed any sweets as kids that started hoarding and hiding junk food and are now overweight.
Tourist families also come here from all over the country and from areas where a sedentary lifestyle 24/7 is common.
1. Sitting on a porch and chatting with neighbors - COMMON.
2. Driving 30 minutes to Walmart or to pick up groceries - COMMON.
3. Picking up fast food like Wendys on the way home after school - COMMON.
4. Sitting on the bleachers at ball games, IF YOU'RE KIDS EVEN PLAY. - COMMON.
5. Going to work and sitting - COMMON.
6. Staying at home and watching Ellen - COMMON.
D.C. and New York and places like it are probably the most intensive amount of exercise (re: walking) they get all year. Meanwhile I walk 4-5 miles a day just because, walk to groceries and gym, walk to pick-up dry cleaning.
It's a choice but its not easy. At all.
WOW it's so hard and you deserve a medal for being so much better than those porch-sittin', Ellen-watchin' country folk!
Hey, I grew up with those country folk! All of my aunts are at least 80 pounds overweight. They lunch on fried chicken and the only place they walk is to their mailbox. Even the local park is a 20-minute drive away.
You think it was easy to change my mindset? To be healthier? NEWSFLASH it wasn't.
This is what living that lifestyle gets you. A week in the ICU and a three-month rehab stint because you decided to go to an Asian buffett when you knew you had a heart condition and were overweight. Idiots. She should be ashamed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5899695/Woman-sues-Texas-buffet-frequented-1million-getting-Fried-Rice-Syndrome.html