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

No gyms, no fad diets, ppl ate normal food just like us nowadays (with all the sweets, junk and whatnot), yet somehow overweight ppl were nearly non-existent back in the 60s and 70s.😌😌😌

Meanwhile ppl nowadays r counting every calories they put into their mouths, going 2 gyms regularly and deliberately starving themselves day after day with all sorts of fad diets (like keto, cico, paleo, carnivore, intermittent, liquid etc.) yet ppl somehow still manage 2 stay fat nowadays.😩😩😩

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

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.