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Weight Loss Tips From 1951
RunsWithBees
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https://youtu.be/t6IuFRjsBQMReplies
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That isn't how I thought it would go. Imagine, we have had the formula for weight loss for this long!4
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I like it!1
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Except for the fact it's sponsored by a milk company and they're pushing milk, rest of video is surprisingly accurate!8
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The message was cool. Was this an all girl college? Or was being an overweight boy okay back then?5
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Narrator mispronounced "protein" as "pro-tee-in".
Just think, these girls had it relatively easy... McDonald's and fast food and quick meals as we know it didn't exist for another few years yet.
The themes are the same, weigh/measure your food, track it, and don't eat too much!
Fuzzy black and white video... so hard to see what the actual food is, it's all grey!
Overall, that is a good video that rings true on a lot of levels.
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I'd take the calories from all that milk and spend them elsewhere
But the basic message is there. 12 -
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L1zardQueen wrote: »
That was my thought too. Of course, it was funded by the dairy industry. Lol
Ice cream, then!8 -
I would have loved it more if the girls were lifting weights or doing HIIT instead of touching their shoulders!!
Wonder what they would have thought about our modern day workouts!!
Also, that 'figure chart' was spectacular!!4 -
It must be that it’s so normal to see much larger people everywhere nowadays because the girls barely look overweight to me!13
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I like how they just took regular meals and reduced the portion-sizes and calorie density, and introduced regular, moderate exercise. Eat less, move more. No restrictive diet, no daily energizer-bunny gym classes required. Kind of like the philosphy of a weight-management site I know of...
I thought the milk-pushing was kind of funny - I was a kid in the 50's and at least where I lived milk was a staple with every healthy meal, because God forbid you should be missing vital vitimins and minerals by avoiding it
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monkeefan1974 wrote: »It must be that it’s so normal to see much larger people everywhere nowadays because the girls barely look overweight to me!
I watched without sound (at work, you see). What were they using to judge overweight? Top of BMI? BF% (although judging by their exercise I doubt this)?2 -
I watched without sound (at work, you see). What were they using to judge overweight? Top of BMI? BF% (although judging by their exercise I doubt this)?
It was not mentioned on how they determined weight loss goals.0 -
L1zardQueen wrote: »
It was not mentioned on how they determined weight loss goals.
Hmm. 'You're fat because I said so.' OK!
(Despite my love of their style, I'm SO glad it's not the 50's any more)7 -
Those 1400 calorie plans looked awfully generous. Probably 400 in milk alone. Those meals must have been really fish and vegetable heavy.6
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Hmm. 'You're fat because I said so.' OK!
(Despite my love of their style, I'm SO glad it's not the 50's any more)
I'm assuming there's a research paper associated with the study somewhere. It might be interesting to track it down and see how the experiment parameters were determined such as ideal body weight vs current weight for each participant and number of calories required (seems like a blanket 1400 was applied overall). The subtext of the mini-documentary was "milk can help you lose weight!" so a lot of the actual experiment structure wouldn't be applicable or deemed interesting to the general public.0 -
I watched without sound (at work, you see). What were they using to judge overweight? Top of BMI? BF% (although judging by their exercise I doubt this)?
They did not say. Perhaps they used waist circumference? A lot of the dresses back then focused on a cinched waist style.0 -
If history of eating/weight loss interests you, you might also find this fun - it's excerpts from a 1960 home economics textbook:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10625791/mainstream-eating-guidance-1960
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If you study enough history you find that we human evolution is constantly hindered by our ignorance of history. We just relearn what past generations already knew.
Love that the individual is weighing her glass of milk on a food scale.9 -
If you study enough history you find that we human evolution is constantly hindered by our ignorance of history. We just relearn what past generations already knew.
Love that the individual is weighing her glass of milk on a food scale.
Good way to sneak in that subliminal "milk is an integral part of a weight loss plan!" 5 -
Good way to sneak in that subliminal "milk is an integral part of a weight loss plan!"
1950s sneaking was pretty obvious. This was marketing's "slap consumer in the face" tactic.3 -
This video just made me understand why my husband's grandmother thought I needed to lose weight--my butt is like the lady who apparently needs to lose 15 lbs.2
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If you study enough history you find that we human evolution is constantly hindered by our ignorance of history. We just relearn what past generations already knew.
Love that the individual is weighing her glass of milk on a food scale.
Yep! There’s nothing new under the sun! I wonder at what point in history people just figured they would rather try gimmicky fad diets than lose weight the right way. I guess “count calories & weigh your food” just doesn’t sound “sexy & novel” enough to be an attractive option. Too bad because it’s the ONLY thing that ACTUALLY works!4 -
Running_and_Coffee wrote: »This video just made me understand why my husband's grandmother thought I needed to lose weight--my butt is like the lady who apparently needs to lose 15 lbs.
Explain to her that big behinds are in-style nowadays!
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monkeefan1974 wrote: »
Yep! There’s nothing new under the sun! I wonder at what point in history people just figured they would rather try gimmicky fad diets than lose weight the right way. I guess “count calories & weigh your food” just doesn’t sound “sexy & novel” enough to be an attractive option. Too bad because it’s the ONLY thing that ACTUALLY works!
I'm continually amazed to learn all of what previous civilizations already knew.
Calorie counting isn't new. It simply was relaunched onto a new platform and popular as the advent of smartphones makes the process incredibly easy. One poster on here cited a calorie book from the 1950/60s which estimated calories for common food items.3 -
Even with the obvious milk propaganda, there’s some great info here. It makes sense that they are promoting milk for this diet, though.
Quote from the film: “This diet satisfies the appetite because it provides more FAT than most reducing diets”. The announcer even emphasizes the word fat.
I wonder if low fat, 1% and fat-free milk even existed back then?
I wonder if they already realized that eating fat doesn’t necessarily make you fat? And if they did, how did we get ourselves into the low-fat craze of the 80’s?! (Which still persists to some degree today!)7 -
I would have loved it more if the girls were lifting weights or doing HIIT instead of touching their shoulders!!
Wonder what they would have thought about our modern day workouts!!
Also, that 'figure chart' was spectacular!!
I don’t know about weights or HIIT (did HIIT even exist back then?) but it used to be thought that women shouldn’t run marathons because their uterus would fall out!
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I would have loved it more if the girls were lifting weights or doing HIIT instead of touching their shoulders!!
Wonder what they would have thought about our modern day workouts!!
Also, that 'figure chart' was spectacular!!
This suggests that weightlifting wasn't a thing for women at the time:
https://breakingmuscle.com/fitness/women-in-weight-sports-part-1-how-it-all-startedThe first females started entering our contests in the 1970s.4
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