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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Paulypeeps · 46-50, F

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...

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Paulypeeps we had a lot of bread and pasta growing up, school meals included. But we had more of was grass-fed beef and free-range chicken and eggs. They have higher levels of CLA, a fatty acid which repairs and builds muscle…..something that corn fed beef is very low in.

Iwillwait · M

@cherokeepatti ..and no GMO grains.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Iwillwait Yes I agree with that one. They are using Round-up on them and no telling what that is doing to metabolism. Wheat has been hybridized so much to increase yields that it’s highly inflammatory. When I was young they averaged about 30-32 bushels of wheat per acre and now it’s close to 45 bushels per acre. Corporate farms are spraying wheat a few days before harvest with Roundup because it loosens up the wheat kernels and they get a higher yield. In the late 50s & early 60s we ate a lot of homemade breads, pasta, gravy, homemade cakes, cookies and desserts. Dessert was an everyday thing in our homes back then. But people were a lot smaller in size despite that. I have read that even sugar cane is GMO now.

Iwillwait · M

@cherokeepatti So.. people are literally eating Roundup?

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Iwillwait Yes they are if they are eating non-organic wheat. It’s also being used on corn.