How do ppl stay all skinny back then in the 60s and 70s without all the current gym craze and fad diets?🤔🤔🤔

Home cooked food from raw ingredients .

Kids walked to school and played outside

People socialised,

Tjere weren't as many labour saving devices : you had to chop wood , hand wash clothes ,or at least hang them out and then iron them.

Rugs had to be beaten - no vacume cleaners .

One car per family.

No internet and only one TV if you were lucky

People visited others to stay in touch.

More labour related jobs?

One income earner ,so money was tight.

People didn't sit around as much.

Portions were smaller, people had less money and less access to shitty food.

A lot more junk food nowadays.
Even "good" bought food is super processed.

It is all about the balance of the diet.

1. Bread did not taste as good, so people only ate it to bulk up the meal or if they had too. Pasta and rice were not commonly eaten - the main carb was potato and that was always eaten with protein. Carb intake was a significantly lower proportion of the diet.

2. Meals were more regular. You did not have places to get snacks everywhere - petrol stations sold fuel and oil and very little else, shops in the high street just sold ingredients to make a meal. Meals were planned and consisted of good proportions of protein, fat, and carbohydrate. People ate at regular times three times a day a proper breakfast with protein (egg, bacon, sausage etc.) then lunch (meat sandwich for example) then dinner (meat and veg and potato). Sounds a bit boring and it was, but it worked.

3. Food was expensive as a proportion of income. If you were poor you had less food.

As you can see exercise has very little to do with it, the diet was all about creating every meal as a balanced meal with good proportions of the key food groups, and eating regularly. There was not a lot of choice! Having protein in every meal is key to supressing appetite between meals and that does not happen when you snack on carbs, or start the day with a carb only breakfast, or even worse no breakfast...

I lost 35 pounds in three months on a moderate to low carb diet. I'm not keto but I don't think it's fad dieting in the least. Paleo is moderate carb but involves healthy carbs, protein and fat, pretty balanced. I'm sure you can have grains if you want but it's not a necessity.

Also when fat was demonized they replaced animal fats with vegetable oils and more sugar. Sugar is addicting and that also led to obesity rates skyrocketing. It was in this era they saw more obesity, not less.

I highly recommend this link:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/20/sugar-deadly-obesity-epidemic

Food was made better
Less imported stuff
More manual labor
More going outside
Less technology and tv

People were more active and less sedentary than we are now.

We didn’t sit around all day in front of a computer or waste time constantly messing with a phone.

Smaller portions and food wasn’t doped up with monosodium glutamate as much as it is today, that stuff is not a flavor enhancer as much as it is an appetite stimulant. We also didn’t have a bunch of buffet restaurants like today, people didn’t drink as much soft drinks either, I think that fad started increasing in the mid-70’s, most people didn’t eat out at restaurants very often….and people usually spent more time outdoors doing stuff. People did eat desserts after a meal usually once a day but sometimes took a walk or did things rather than plop down in front of the tv after dinner. We didn’t have many tv channels back then so there was less that we wanted to watch and would watch some programs later on. We also had more grass-fed beef, it was cheaper than corn fed and it actually helps create muscle because it is loaded with CLA, a fatty acid that builds and repairs muscles.

Not really true. There wasn't the same availability of junk food in the 60s as now. For example, 24 hour open shops and vending machines everywhere weren't as common, so getting a snack at any time wasn't an option. Also people had more regimented eating habits (the same thing that adopting intermittent fasting does)

Keto, intermittent fasting etc aren't fad diets (intermittent fasting isn't even a diet) and they have helped people who adopt them lose weight. Cico isn't a diet either, just the most basic form of weight regulation (eat less than your body uses = lose weight)

Not sure where you get that overweight people were "nearly nonexistent". There were perhaps less in percent, but they sure existed

Trans fats, a man made fat, used in processed foods, chocolate bars, cakes etc, it acts as a preservative gives the foods a longer shelf life, but makes people fat, in the process

Overeating. As someone who wasn’t born in the USA, the portions are out of control here. Just look up the portion sizes for a bottle of coke from the 50’s to now.

I also work in food service, third shift. People come in the middle of the night and order burgers, subs, milkshakes, etc. when they know they aren’t going to burn those calories.

Mindless eating. That’s the answer.

My issue is anorexia (recovered), counting calories and restriction does work. If you actually know how to count calories and control yourself.

Let’s see 🤔. Walking everywhere ,no fast junk food and lots of physical activity from sports to even good ole physical hard work .

People now eat so much processed food and fast food and dont walk anywhere. Unhealthy lifestyle has made people fat

There's a movie by the name of Wall-E that might provide some insights...

Food back then actually had nutrition in it. No GMO and steroid fed meat or chicken. Now you eat and your body absorbs food that has less nutrition in it, so it craves more. Farm soil today actually still has the same amounts of minerals in it, but is lacking the correct balance of fungus that assists minerals being absorbed into plants.

Our food supply is full of chemicals and preservatives. This has resulted in a heavier society. The "Fast-Food,", "Convenience Dining," along with mammoth portions has definitely played a huge roll in our epidemic of obesity.

High fructose corn syrup.

For starters...

I worked hard and my family was very poor.

amphetamines haha

Kids walked, or rode their bikes to school, if they did not take a bus.
Fast food was not as common.
A trip to McDonald's was an occasional treat, and the portions were smaller.
No "super size".

The % of people who go to the gym regularly are the minority.
A large % people who get into fad diets do so in the months before summer to compensate overeating during the rest of the year.
We do not eat the same food (the food we do eat, we do so in larger quantities) nor the same % of fast food.
A large % of the workforce now works in services and office work which is mostly sitting down in front of a computer.
Our leasure time has shifted from outdoor activities to sitting in front of the tv watching hours on end or playing computer games.

It really isn't surprising that obesity has risen dramatically.

Prob cause they were busier and sure the heck weren't sitting in front of a computer or cell phone screen all day and night

Ask Mama Cass.

There was a lot less sugar in the food and more people did manual jobs.

Of course there were fat people , being overweight was not so big

On what do you base this, considering that you were probably born in the 21st century?

Sorry to tell you that we didn't live in cars or drive to work. We went lots of places. You have to admit that being fat replaced the way we lived or cars could never be so huge and oppressive. You advanced as capitalist fodder-. Beyond their wildest dreams!

Drugs

Same way I stay skinny I guess. I've been trying to gain weight since I was a preteen and I can't seem to.

You do know there was no Internet back then , plus people got their news from the newspaper and tv . We have allowed the media to chance things .

We were more active, outdoor activities, and such. Not much sitting around because it was boring... no computers.

I think they were more active in routine life.
And maybe ate healthier (a bit)

People didnt spend countless hours online leading to obesity
Also way less GMO food

no gym, no diets, I have had a consistent weight for the last 20 years!

its not hard.

Idk. I've never been fat, th most I've weighed is 145 lbs, & I'm only 5'6

Fast food franchises were just getting started back then, for one.

There was less money and less junk food back then

People cooked more often. Now nobody has time.

They ate less.

how would you know?

they took pills and starved themselves just like they do today

I guess cocaine was cheaper then.