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Mainstream Eating Guidance, 1960
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Wow this is cool to see, thanks for posting!0
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sugaraddict4321 wrote: »
No...That's all wrong. It should be cheese (pref mature cheddar) AND peanut butter together, on any sort of toast. Try it. It's worth the calories.2 -
MarziPanda95 wrote: »
About cars, though: In my part of the US (and I suspect most of the rest of the US, outside of dense cities, which fewer lived in then), adults did not walk or ride bikes. It would've been laughably eccentric.
The 1960s were the height of car culture. Gas was getting down to 16-25 cents a gallon, which was cheap even then. There were gas "price wars" where prices were driven down, and there were frequently promotions where you got a premium (towels or glassware were common) with a fill-up (sometimes less). People went on drives for entertainment, like a couple of hours or so driving around the county with the family on a Sunday afternoon just for fun, not really heading for a destination.
But cars, here, were standard transport - more than now, perhaps (I hesitate only because we travel farther and more frequently now - cars for sure were used more for daily local transport by adults then than they are now, vs. walking or bikes).
I too was a child in the 60's but lived in the city (Brooklyn, NY). Many families in our community could not afford cars and if they did, they only had one. We didn't own a car when I was younger but when I got a little older my father got a company car that we could use at times. But, by the time we were a family of eight, it was next to impossible for us to go too far in the car. Thus, walking was a way of life. We walked back and forth to school twice a day (came home from lunch). We walked to church and activities like Girl Scouts. We walked to our friends houses. We walked to stores, the doctor, and dentist. We walked a mile each to go to the library. We walked 1 to 1 1/2 miles each way to visit relatives. When we weren't walking somewhere, we were playing in the streets, much of which involved physical activity. It was a very different lifestyle from what my daughters had, and what my grandchildren have today! And, there is no question, that more calories were burned.
Now I feel old reading this
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About cars, though: In my part of the US (and I suspect most of the rest of the US, outside of dense cities, which fewer lived in then), adults did not walk or ride bikes. It would've been laughably eccentric.
The 1960s were the height of car culture. Gas was getting down to 16-25 cents a gallon, which was cheap even then. There were gas "price wars" where prices were driven down, and there were frequently promotions where you got a premium (towels or glassware were common) with a fill-up (sometimes less). People went on drives for entertainment, like a couple of hours or so driving around the county with the family on a Sunday afternoon just for fun, not really heading for a destination.
But cars, here, were standard transport - more than now, perhaps (I hesitate only because we travel farther and more frequently now - cars for sure were used more for daily local transport by adults then than they are now, vs. walking or bikes).
I too was a child in the 60's but lived in the city (Brooklyn, NY). Many families in our community could not afford cars and if they did, they only had one. We didn't own a car when I was younger but when I got a little older my father got a company car that we could use at times. But, by the time we were a family of eight, it was next to impossible for us to go too far in the car. Thus, walking was a way of life. We walked back and forth to school twice a day (came home from lunch). We walked to church and activities like Girl Scouts. We walked to our friends houses. We walked to stores, the doctor, and dentist. We walked a mile each to go to the library. We walked 1 to 1 1/2 miles each way to visit relatives. When we weren't walking somewhere, we were playing in the streets, much of which involved physical activity. It was a very different lifestyle from what my daughters had, and what my grandchildren have today! And, there is no question, that more calories were burned.
Now I feel old reading this
Yup, people walked in the dense cities, as you say. Many still do.
I grew up outside a small town, where my dad also grew up. He walked 4 miles to high school, and around a mile and half to country school for K-8th grade (1920s-1930s).
I was driven to the same 3-room country school for K-2nd grade (no buses) then rode a bus to the town school where he'd gone to high school. (Most days the bus ride probably took about as long as his walk - circuitous bus route). The town kids mostly walked or rode bikes to school. (1959-1973).
Judging from lives of younger cousins who still live there, these days country kids still ride the bus (some driven), town kids too close for bus service are mostly driven.
People say children were safer walking/biking then. Per US crime stats, that's false.
And "old" is a wonderful thing. Revel in it! (I love it. As a cancer widow and cancer survivor, I know what the actual alternative is, and it's not "young".
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The calories may seem higher than today, but I bet people were more active - less technology to help with those household chores!2
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That was fun to read. I love how all the meals pictured include some citrus and the photos are sponsored by Sunkist.
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I didn't get past pumpkie pie with ice cream at dinner. Yum! I'm in!2
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hey, look at that. back in 1960, five years before i was born, 128 was a normal or healthy weight for someone like me at 5'4".
yet, by the time i had actually grown as tall as 5'4", it was '100 pounds for the first five feet of height, and after that only five pounds MAX per additional inch [plus some fancy-pantsery about your wrist circumference and such stuff]'. so i was only 'supposed' to weigh 120 in 1979, when thin waify women were so very 'in'.
i like how it classes 'lab work' and 'singing' at the same burn. back in the day, if they had had mfp, we'd have dozens of people per year going 'so, if i sing all the time i'm at work can i log that separately? what if i only hum?'
the other thing that's interesting is the calorie allowances. it got me started on thinking of all the things that were just normally done 'by hand' back in the day, and which there's an app or an appliance for now.3 -
Wow. I have the maintenance calories of a 65 year old 128lb woman at 32 and 140lbs. Go me.6
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canadianlbs wrote: »hey, look at that. back in 1960, five years before i was born, 128 was a normal or healthy weight for someone like me at 5'4".
yet, by the time i had actually grown as tall as 5'4", it was '100 pounds for the first five feet of height, and after that only five pounds MAX per additional inch [plus some fancy-pantsery about your wrist circumference and such stuff]'. so i was only 'supposed' to weigh 120 in 1979, when thin waify women were so very 'in'.
i like how it classes 'lab work' and 'singing' at the same burn. back in the day, if they had had mfp, we'd have dozens of people per year going 'so, if i sing all the time i'm at work can i log that separately? what if i only hum?'
the other thing that's interesting is the calorie allowances. it got me started on thinking of all the things that were just normally done 'by hand' back in the day, and which there's an app or an appliance for now.
Yup. And that's without even accounting for more "doing" leisure activities then vs. "watching" ones now.
I was alive then. These things are at least in the low hundreds of calories a day, if you ask me. That plus ubiquitous snacky 24-hour convenience foods, and ya got yerself an obesity crisis.3 -
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I love this - thank you for sharing.
It amazes me the level of ego the current generation has compared to the previous generation.
A colleague recently found an Eighth Grade Final Examination dated 1954. I doubt most people with post secondary/graduate level education could pass this test. 20 simple questions requiring general knowledge on how to thrive at that time, from amending a balance sheet to basic questions on civics. In so many cases we have lost focus on goals and re-learning what our elders have already known.6 -
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
The chart that has the 7 food groups only suggests "some daily" for bread/grains. I grew up in the era of the food pyramid with grains at the bottom - the largest part of our diet. Quite different!1 -
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!1
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