why were people so skinny in the 70s?
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I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
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I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
strong first post - and total woo9 -
I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
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No. it isn't 'all the chemicals' in our food. Semi-accurate calorie and exercise burn counting for a fairly typical person now tells the entire story pretty clearly.
They..
[1] weren't sedentary AF. People walked places a lot. More people did physical labor than now. Even desk jobs involved ferrying paperwork around to and from place to place back in the days before email and electronic files.
[2] They weren't constantly eating out. (Calorie count a typical restaurant trip, even if you box up 2/3 of the entree and split a dessert 2-ways, and compare to a home meal if you don't think this is a factor).
[3] I doubt they were sitting on their *kittens* watching TV -while simultaneously snacking the entire time - remotely as often as many people do now. Ever look at the serving sizes and calorie counts on a bag of crisps or dip, etc?4 -
To the person who claims people in the 70's were not scared their child could be abducted. The very first time I took my daughter out in the pram to the local shopping centre, I refused to go into any shops I could not take the pram into. In another part of the UK a child was taken from its pram out side some shop and was never found. This was 1969, mid to late October! I got home to hear of the abduction on the radio news bulletin.
That fear has never left me to the extent I did not leave 4 granddaughters I'd taken to holiday cottage though one was 16 yrs old! That was the day a much younger child was abducted from a holiday destination in Spain. She definitely has not been found.
I don't know about anyone else but a young life, any life has never been something I have taken chances with.0 -
the grapefruit diet3
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I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
In the 70's mothers still shopped two to three times a week, so food was in their whole state when prepared. Breakfast, lunches, and dinners were prepared with some consideration involved and not by a microwave. Although food processing was invented in 1809 by Nicols Appert for bottle stuff for French troops. The flooding of processed foods in America did not become mainstream till the introduction of the microwave oven to the American public. While the first microwave was sold publicly in 1955 as "radarange", it was so big and expensive the general public could not afford it. It was not until the 1970's when the mass production brought down prices to a point that middle-class families could afford to buy microwaves for their homes. Now the processing of our foods is in high gear. 1977 economy forces mothers out of the kitchen and back into the workforce, so families could afford to send their kids to college and retire without starving to death. This introduced snack foods, fast food restaurants that were cheap in comparison to feeding a family of 4 at home. The increase in chemicals and the massive amounts of sugar being consumed by the American public was on a steep climb up. Physical education in the late 70's and early eighties is being decreased in schools across the country along with an unhealthy lunch offering to students, cause mothers were no longer packing lunches as often. The late 70's enters television sets in every home, the first home computers and the Atari gaming system which drove kids and parents alike from healthy outdoor activities with family to indoors gathered around some device that entertains them, but does nothing for their need for an active lifestyle. If you look at the data being published the late 60's and early 70's was the beginning of the obesity problem in America. It also did not help that with these new processed foods, you got more and more chemicals which hamper our health and nutrition. Just my 2 cents as an Emergency Room Nurse on the subject.9 -
dgarwood8181 wrote: »I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
In the 70's mothers still shopped two to three times a week, so food was in their whole state when prepared. Breakfast, lunches, and dinners were prepared with some consideration involved and not by a microwave. Although food processing was invented in 1809 by Nicols Appert for bottle stuff for French troops. The flooding of processed foods in America did not become mainstream till the introduction of the microwave oven to the American public. While the first microwave was sold publicly in 1955 as "radarange", it was so big and expensive the general public could not afford it. It was not until the 1970's when the mass production brought down prices to a point that middle-class families could afford to buy microwaves for their homes. Now the processing of our foods is in high gear. 1977 economy forces mothers out of the kitchen and back into the workforce, so families could afford to send their kids to college and retire without starving to death. This introduced snack foods, fast food restaurants that were cheap in comparison to feeding a family of 4 at home. The increase in chemicals and the massive amounts of sugar being consumed by the American public was on a steep climb up. Physical education in the late 70's and early eighties is being decreased in schools across the country along with an unhealthy lunch offering to students, cause mothers were no longer packing lunches as often. The late 70's enters television sets in every home, the first home computers and the Atari gaming system which drove kids and parents alike from healthy outdoor activities with family to indoors gathered around some device that entertains them, but does nothing for their need for an active lifestyle. If you look at the data being published the late 60's and early 70's was the beginning of the obesity problem in America. It also did not help that with these new processed foods, you got more and more chemicals which hamper our health and nutrition. Just my 2 cents as an Emergency Room Nurse on the subject.
Have to disagree with just about all of this.
1. I graduated HS in 1980, so I grew up in the 70's... we ate fast food as a family at least 2 times a week, and depending on how much overtime my father was working, sometimes more.
2. By the time I was a senior, I was eating more fast food than home-cooked food because of school activities/work and missing meal times at home
3. We had processed food - mac&cheese, canned veggies, boxed potatoes, white bread, etc
4. we never had a microwave at home
5. my mother never worked outside the home
6. I routinely (as did all of my friends) ate snack cakes, packaged cookies, chips, etc.
7. I took my lunch to school because it was cheaper than buying lunch (and better tasting food)
8. There were very few overweight kids in my high school (it was a small enough number that it was actually noticed - unlike today)
I weighed 150 lbs soaking wet when I graduated HS. I didn't gain any significant weight until after college when I got a desk job and stopped moving so much while still eating the same amount of food as before.
Oh, and please name all of these harmful chemicals that we are putting in the foods... I always see people say 'its the chemicals' that cause us problems but I have yet to see anyone name the chemicals and show scientific proof of any damage that the nasty chemicals have caused.
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moms still cooked, or we kids did, so imagine that homemade nutrition. Tv dinners or going for hamburgers at the 1 McDonald's in town, were just once in a while, so the overload of fats/sugars in processed foods was rare. And we played outside, we were outside most of the time even through high school. Soda was not the drink of choice- water really was. Compare to today when processed food is devoid of nutrition, few people cook, sugary drinks in giant sizes are pushed, and nobody is outside. And there are 6 McDonald's in the same town that used to only have 1, not to mention the same number of multiple other fast food franchises.3
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I'm going to say it's the vehicles. Cars were way bigger in the 70s. People were small. As cars became smaller and smaller in the following decades, people grew bigger and bigger. Blame GM, not GMO's
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dgarwood8181 wrote: »I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
In the 70's mothers still shopped two to three times a week, so food was in their whole state when prepared. Breakfast, lunches, and dinners were prepared with some consideration involved and not by a microwave. Although food processing was invented in 1809 by Nicols Appert for bottle stuff for French troops. The flooding of processed foods in America did not become mainstream till the introduction of the microwave oven to the American public. While the first microwave was sold publicly in 1955 as "radarange", it was so big and expensive the general public could not afford it. It was not until the 1970's when the mass production brought down prices to a point that middle-class families could afford to buy microwaves for their homes. Now the processing of our foods is in high gear. 1977 economy forces mothers out of the kitchen and back into the workforce, so families could afford to send their kids to college and retire without starving to death. This introduced snack foods, fast food restaurants that were cheap in comparison to feeding a family of 4 at home. The increase in chemicals and the massive amounts of sugar being consumed by the American public was on a steep climb up. Physical education in the late 70's and early eighties is being decreased in schools across the country along with an unhealthy lunch offering to students, cause mothers were no longer packing lunches as often. The late 70's enters television sets in every home, the first home computers and the Atari gaming system which drove kids and parents alike from healthy outdoor activities with family to indoors gathered around some device that entertains them, but does nothing for their need for an active lifestyle. If you look at the data being published the late 60's and early 70's was the beginning of the obesity problem in America. It also did not help that with these new processed foods, you got more and more chemicals which hamper our health and nutrition. Just my 2 cents as an Emergency Room Nurse on the subject.
I'm completely unclear why you think being an emergency room nurse gives you authority speaking about historical, cultural, and economic trends of the 1970s.20 -
dgarwood8181 wrote: »I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
In the 70's mothers still shopped two to three times a week, so food was in their whole state when prepared. Breakfast, lunches, and dinners were prepared with some consideration involved and not by a microwave. Although food processing was invented in 1809 by Nicols Appert for bottle stuff for French troops. The flooding of processed foods in America did not become mainstream till the introduction of the microwave oven to the American public. While the first microwave was sold publicly in 1955 as "radarange", it was so big and expensive the general public could not afford it. It was not until the 1970's when the mass production brought down prices to a point that middle-class families could afford to buy microwaves for their homes. Now the processing of our foods is in high gear. 1977 economy forces mothers out of the kitchen and back into the workforce, so families could afford to send their kids to college and retire without starving to death. This introduced snack foods, fast food restaurants that were cheap in comparison to feeding a family of 4 at home. The increase in chemicals and the massive amounts of sugar being consumed by the American public was on a steep climb up. Physical education in the late 70's and early eighties is being decreased in schools across the country along with an unhealthy lunch offering to students, cause mothers were no longer packing lunches as often. The late 70's enters television sets in every home, the first home computers and the Atari gaming system which drove kids and parents alike from healthy outdoor activities with family to indoors gathered around some device that entertains them, but does nothing for their need for an active lifestyle. If you look at the data being published the late 60's and early 70's was the beginning of the obesity problem in America. It also did not help that with these new processed foods, you got more and more chemicals which hamper our health and nutrition. Just my 2 cents as an Emergency Room Nurse on the subject.
Processed food went into high gear right after WWII. We never had a microwave but we still ate plenty of mac 'n cheese, rainbow bread, frozen dinners, hamburger helper, potato chips, stove top stuffing, etc, etc, etc...the list could go on an on.
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dgarwood8181 wrote: »I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
In the 70's mothers still shopped two to three times a week, so food was in their whole state when prepared. Breakfast, lunches, and dinners were prepared with some consideration involved and not by a microwave. Although food processing was invented in 1809 by Nicols Appert for bottle stuff for French troops. The flooding of processed foods in America did not become mainstream till the introduction of the microwave oven to the American public. While the first microwave was sold publicly in 1955 as "radarange", it was so big and expensive the general public could not afford it. It was not until the 1970's when the mass production brought down prices to a point that middle-class families could afford to buy microwaves for their homes. Now the processing of our foods is in high gear. 1977 economy forces mothers out of the kitchen and back into the workforce, so families could afford to send their kids to college and retire without starving to death. This introduced snack foods, fast food restaurants that were cheap in comparison to feeding a family of 4 at home. The increase in chemicals and the massive amounts of sugar being consumed by the American public was on a steep climb up. Physical education in the late 70's and early eighties is being decreased in schools across the country along with an unhealthy lunch offering to students, cause mothers were no longer packing lunches as often. The late 70's enters television sets in every home, the first home computers and the Atari gaming system which drove kids and parents alike from healthy outdoor activities with family to indoors gathered around some device that entertains them, but does nothing for their need for an active lifestyle. If you look at the data being published the late 60's and early 70's was the beginning of the obesity problem in America. It also did not help that with these new processed foods, you got more and more chemicals which hamper our health and nutrition. Just my 2 cents as an Emergency Room Nurse on the subject.
Have to disagree with just about all of this.
1. I graduated HS in 1980, so I grew up in the 70's... we ate fast food as a family at least 2 times a week, and depending on how much overtime my father was working, sometimes more.
2. By the time I was a senior, I was eating more fast food than home-cooked food because of school activities/work and missing meal times at home
3. We had processed food - mac&cheese, canned veggies, boxed potatoes, white bread, etc
4. we never had a microwave at home
5. my mother never worked outside the home
6. I routinely (as did all of my friends) ate snack cakes, packaged cookies, chips, etc.
7. I took my lunch to school because it was cheaper than buying lunch (and better tasting food)
8. There were very few overweight kids in my high school (it was a small enough number that it was actually noticed - unlike today)
I weighed 150 lbs soaking wet when I graduated HS. I didn't gain any significant weight until after college when I got a desk job and stopped moving so much while still eating the same amount of food as before.
Oh, and please name all of these harmful chemicals that we are putting in the foods... I always see people say 'its the chemicals' that cause us problems but I have yet to see anyone name the chemicals and show scientific proof of any damage that the nasty chemicals have caused.
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First, there is no reason to get nasty toward my post. I was stating information retrieved from medical sources. like The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which states that "since 1980 child obesity rates have tripled with the rates of obese 6- to 11-year-olds more than doubling (from 7.0 percent to 17.5 percent) and rates of obese teens (ages 12 to 19) quadrupling from 5 percent to 20.5 percent" [NHANES, 2011-2014 data]" "It further goes on to say that nealy half of americans drink sugar sweetened beverages on a given day and most americans exceed recommended levels of solid fats, added sugar and sodium." If you will look at my post more closely. I am saying in the 1970's people were skinner at the beginning of the decade, but at the end, they were starting to gain wait for all the reasons you mentioned and we as Americans continue to get further from our food is in its natural state, which our body requires to be healthy. You are correct there were non-microwaveable foods that would be cooked on the stove that was highly processed. However, those foods are even farther from their natural state today. Look at mac n cheese. It no longer has the powdered cheese, but a big packet of over processed creamy cheddar cheese that has been highly processed, so it will keep longer on the shelf. That is all accomplished with chemicals. Take all this with the decline in activity of all Americans and it adds to an increase in weight. Those processed foods are higher in calories for the amount of food you eat, which means it takes more processed food to make your body feel stronger. A grand Big Mac and a Large diet coke come in at 1150 calories with 52 g of fat and 152 g of carbs. This doe does not even include a large fry. This is what I was trying to say earlier. The calories of the means compared to when we were kids were not as calorie dense. From the 1980's on it has steadily gotten worse.
Here is the link to the article I referenced for you to read. https://stateofobesity.org/obesity-rates-trends-overview/12 -
dgarwood8181 wrote: »
First, there is no reason to get nasty toward my post. I was stating information retrieved from medical sources. like The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which states that "since 1980 child obesity rates have tripled with the rates of obese 6- to 11-year-olds more than doubling (from 7.0 percent to 17.5 percent) and rates of obese teens (ages 12 to 19) quadrupling from 5 percent to 20.5 percent" [NHANES, 2011-2014 data]" "It further goes on to say that nealy half of americans drink sugar sweetened beverages on a given day and most americans exceed recommended levels of solid fats, added sugar and sodium." If you will look at my post more closely. I am saying in the 1970's people were skinner at the beginning of the decade, but at the end, they were starting to gain wait for all the reasons you mentioned and we as Americans continue to get further from our food is in its natural state, which our body requires to be healthy. You are correct there were non-microwaveable foods that would be cooked on the stove that was highly processed. However, those foods are even farther from their natural state today. Look at mac n cheese. It no longer has the powdered cheese, but a big packet of over processed creamy cheddar cheese that has been highly processed, so it will keep longer on the shelf. That is all accomplished with chemicals. Take all this with the decline in activity of all Americans and it adds to an increase in weight. Those processed foods are higher in calories for the amount of food you eat, which means it takes more processed food to make your body feel stronger. A grand Big Mac and a Large diet coke come in at 1150 calories with 52 g of fat and 152 g of carbs. This doe does not even include a large fry. This is what I was trying to say earlier. The calories of the means compared to when we were kids were not as calorie dense. From the 1980's on it has steadily gotten worse.
Here is the link to the article I referenced for you to read. https://stateofobesity.org/obesity-rates-trends-overview/
How did you determine that packet of cheese powder is further from nature than a packet of creamy cheese? Chemicals and preservatives are involved in the production of both.9 -
dgarwood8181 wrote: »dgarwood8181 wrote: »I believe the main reason for obesity is our food sources. Almost everything is now processed with MSG or "Natural Flavors" and that causes you to eat more. Look at the labels of the food you eat, MSG is now hidden on the labels, and in the manufacturing. Some sources: MSG, "Natural Flavors", Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Sauce. The list goes on and on. I recently discovered this and removed all the food in my home that was high in Glutamates, it was about 90% of the food in my pantry. I also believe there is a strong case that it is the cause of other neurological problems like Autism.
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/IVhistoryOfUse.html
In the 70's mothers still shopped two to three times a week, so food was in their whole state when prepared. Breakfast, lunches, and dinners were prepared with some consideration involved and not by a microwave. Although food processing was invented in 1809 by Nicols Appert for bottle stuff for French troops. The flooding of processed foods in America did not become mainstream till the introduction of the microwave oven to the American public. While the first microwave was sold publicly in 1955 as "radarange", it was so big and expensive the general public could not afford it. It was not until the 1970's when the mass production brought down prices to a point that middle-class families could afford to buy microwaves for their homes. Now the processing of our foods is in high gear. 1977 economy forces mothers out of the kitchen and back into the workforce, so families could afford to send their kids to college and retire without starving to death. This introduced snack foods, fast food restaurants that were cheap in comparison to feeding a family of 4 at home. The increase in chemicals and the massive amounts of sugar being consumed by the American public was on a steep climb up. Physical education in the late 70's and early eighties is being decreased in schools across the country along with an unhealthy lunch offering to students, cause mothers were no longer packing lunches as often. The late 70's enters television sets in every home, the first home computers and the Atari gaming system which drove kids and parents alike from healthy outdoor activities with family to indoors gathered around some device that entertains them, but does nothing for their need for an active lifestyle. If you look at the data being published the late 60's and early 70's was the beginning of the obesity problem in America. It also did not help that with these new processed foods, you got more and more chemicals which hamper our health and nutrition. Just my 2 cents as an Emergency Room Nurse on the subject.
Have to disagree with just about all of this.
1. I graduated HS in 1980, so I grew up in the 70's... we ate fast food as a family at least 2 times a week, and depending on how much overtime my father was working, sometimes more.
2. By the time I was a senior, I was eating more fast food than home-cooked food because of school activities/work and missing meal times at home
3. We had processed food - mac&cheese, canned veggies, boxed potatoes, white bread, etc
4. we never had a microwave at home
5. my mother never worked outside the home
6. I routinely (as did all of my friends) ate snack cakes, packaged cookies, chips, etc.
7. I took my lunch to school because it was cheaper than buying lunch (and better tasting food)
8. There were very few overweight kids in my high school (it was a small enough number that it was actually noticed - unlike today)
I weighed 150 lbs soaking wet when I graduated HS. I didn't gain any significant weight until after college when I got a desk job and stopped moving so much while still eating the same amount of food as before.
Oh, and please name all of these harmful chemicals that we are putting in the foods... I always see people say 'its the chemicals' that cause us problems but I have yet to see anyone name the chemicals and show scientific proof of any damage that the nasty chemicals have caused.
edited for spelling and clarity
First, there is no reason to get nasty toward my post. I was stating information retrieved from medical sources. like The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which states that "since 1980 child obesity rates have tripled with the rates of obese 6- to 11-year-olds more than doubling (from 7.0 percent to 17.5 percent) and rates of obese teens (ages 12 to 19) quadrupling from 5 percent to 20.5 percent" [NHANES, 2011-2014 data]" "It further goes on to say that nealy half of americans drink sugar sweetened beverages on a given day and most americans exceed recommended levels of solid fats, added sugar and sodium." If you will look at my post more closely. I am saying in the 1970's people were skinner at the beginning of the decade, but at the end, they were starting to gain wait for all the reasons you mentioned and we as Americans continue to get further from our food is in its natural state, which our body requires to be healthy. You are correct there were non-microwaveable foods that would be cooked on the stove that was highly processed. However, those foods are even farther from their natural state today. Look at mac n cheese. It no longer has the powdered cheese, but a big packet of over processed creamy cheddar cheese that has been highly processed, so it will keep longer on the shelf. That is all accomplished with chemicals. Take all this with the decline in activity of all Americans and it adds to an increase in weight. Those processed foods are higher in calories for the amount of food you eat, which means it takes more processed food to make your body feel stronger. A grand Big Mac and a Large diet coke come in at 1150 calories with 52 g of fat and 152 g of carbs. This doe does not even include a large fry. This is what I was trying to say earlier. The calories of the means compared to when we were kids were not as calorie dense. From the 1980's on it has steadily gotten worse.
Here is the link to the article I referenced for you to read. https://stateofobesity.org/obesity-rates-trends-overview/
Disagreeing with you was nasty?9 -
I was born in 1970, and growing up I was never overweight or fat. I graduated hs at about 120 and at 5'8" I was quite skinny. I grew up eating what my grandparents grew in the garden and the fields. There was no microwaves or processed foods and not a whole lot of candy and junk foods around. I was always outside playing. A horrible punishment for me was not being allowed outside. I rode my bike, ran, swam, climbed trees and worked on the farm. It wasn't until the mid 90's and my second child that I started gaining weight. I was in the military for almost 10 years so I was able to keep it off running and staying active. I also developed hernias that were persistant and non healing. I have had 6 hernia surgeries over the years and have had 5 kids. Each hernia coinsided with each kid. I can't really even blame my weight gain on my kids as I gained most of this weight in the past 10 years and my youngest is 13. I love food, period!!! I love to eat, and all the wrong stuff. I can eat a lot, too. I don't do fast food anymore, or soda's, and I have narrowed it down to how much I'm eating. I have been running for the past year and have dropped about 40 pounds and am still working my way down to 135. I was anorexic in hs and have a disorder that makes all mirrors into circus mirrors, and I know that is working against me. When I was in hs I had a fear of getting fat and thought I looked fat and needed to work out. I did and I put myself in the hospital at 104 pounds and I STILL thought I was fat. So, I blame the weight explosion on processed food and lack of exercise and all that goes with it. It also seems to me that every invention is this world anymore seems to be geared towards laziness.1
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Oh, and please name all of these harmful chemicals that we are putting in the foods... I always see people say 'its the chemicals' that cause us problems but I have yet to see anyone name the chemicals and show scientific proof of any damage that the nasty chemicals have caused.
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this statement of begging me to make reference to chemicals is asking for me to say it so he can attack me. Just like everyone else in this forum. I gave a logical explanation backed by evidence as asked. The cheese powder was made in a very different way because it was taken to a dehydrated state, where more chemicals have to be added to the cheese sauce packets to make them stay on the shelf longer. I can research in the Cochrane Systematic Review database and find the links to several hormones and antibiotics that are placed in our food today that are causing you, girls, to develop breast tissue earlier, which places them at a high risk for developing breast cancer in their lives. Also, the heavy use of antibiotics in food has now produced some of the most drug-resistant strains of bacteria we have ever seen. So that is all I am going to say about that.
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please go back and read my post. I am speaking of the 70's and why we were skinny and the obesity problem coming in the late 70's and early eighties. We changed the way we ate and continued do activities together as a family in the seventies. We all went out to play after school and stayed out till the street lights come on. In the 80's this changed with computer games and watching hours of TV.6
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dgarwood8181 wrote: »Oh, and please name all of these harmful chemicals that we are putting in the foods... I always see people say 'its the chemicals' that cause us problems but I have yet to see anyone name the chemicals and show scientific proof of any damage that the nasty chemicals have caused.
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this statement of begging me to make reference to chemicals is asking for me to say it so he can attack me. Just like everyone else in this forum. I gave a logical explanation backed by evidence as asked. The cheese powder was made in a very different way because it was taken to a dehydrated state, where more chemicals have to be added to the cheese sauce packets to make them stay on the shelf longer. I can research in the Cochrane Systematic Review database and find the links to several hormones and antibiotics that are placed in our food today that are causing you, girls, to develop breast tissue earlier, which places them at a high risk for developing breast cancer in their lives. Also, the heavy use of antibiotics in food has now produced some of the most drug-resistant strains of bacteria we have ever seen. So that is all I am going to say about that.
Alternate suggestion: Nobody knows what chemicals you're referring to and someone is asking so they can understand your argument. If you know the chemicals you're referring to and don't want to share, then why even bother to post?
Is the argument that "more chemicals" is further from nature? Again, it would be helpful for you to clarify what chemicals you're referring to. I don't think of Kraft mac and cheese powder as particularly natural, so I'm not following your argument here.
I would be interested to see the proof that links specific chemicals conclusively to the early development of breast tissue. I know this is a theory, but I was unaware that it has been proven already.
Also, this site is 18 and up only, so you're addressing women here, not any girls.12 -
dgarwood8181 wrote: »please go back and read my post. I am speaking of the 70's and why we were skinny and the obesity problem coming in the late 70's and early eighties. We changed the way we ate and continued do activities together as a family in the seventies. We all went out to play after school and stayed out till the street lights come on. In the 80's this changed with computer games and watching hours of TV.
There was no one universal mode of living in the 1970s. "We" didn't all do anything then, just as we don't all do anything now.
There may be overall trends in a society, but there were people in the 1970s that sat around watching TV or didn't spend a lot of time with their family. There were people in the 1980s who didn't watch lots of TV and spent lots of time with their family.
To talk about any decade as if it had just one type of behavior doesn't make sense.
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