Based on many responses in the boards here, a substantial number of posters are of an age where they can remember the 50's, 60's, 70's, and they would know how thin (compared to people today) most were. Photographs and film from the same era illustrate the same
Ok, so what changed? Because back then, people customarily ate their share of cakes with real cream, ate butter, drank full cream milk, ate fast foods such as traditional hamburgers with the lot plus the new, franchised burger joints which were creeping in then
People didn't exercise over much back in the day. Gyms were places no-one knew much about but which generally catered to boxers. No glossy gyms back then. The most 'modern' exercise equipment were exercise-bikes and not too many had one with even less numbers actually using one. Fish and chips, cooked in thick, well-used oil, were a staple, as were pies. Roast dinners were a national institution. Pork crackling. Bacon and eggs and fried bread for breakfast. Jam and butter and bread for afternoon tea was commonplace for kids arriving home from school. Tuck-shops sold varieties of full-cream flavoured milk and soft drinks, chunky 'salad rolls' which were big on bread and butter and slim on content, cakes thick with lard, copha, chocolate and nuts. Lollies galore. Pastries two inches thick. Fruit was used for decoration in most homes, as witnessed by school garbage bins overflowing with peeled oranges, apples, pears, etc. Booze everywhere, the social lubricant. Fondue parties. Cake stalls on every street corner, etc. etc.
What changed? Today we have an almost neurotically health-conscious population which despite the evidence mentioned above, is being blamed -- very conveniently -- for this 'epidemic of obesity' we're told is occurring. People exercise as if not to do so is akin to satanism. The sugar which flooded most Aussie homes in teh past is treated as an enemy agent. People cut down on portions, they eliminate all the alleged 'bad stuff' from their diets and live on seaweed and cardboard, yet they continue to pile on weight. And they're told it's their fault
No. Not their fault at all. Just as smoking, which is responsible for only 15% of smoking related illness and death, is blamed by the same corrupt World Health Organisation despite it's admission only a week or so ago that the air we breathe is responsible for lung and related cancers !
And it's the fluoride in the water -- the genetically modified food hiding behind lying labels -- the thousands of additives in almost all foods -- and Chemtrails spewing toxins into the air, which are responsible for people's unnatural weight gain. Oh, and let's not forget the irradiation game whereby supposedly 'fresh' fruits and vegetables are rendered as looking fit to eat when in fact most of them are two or more years old by the time they appear for sale in supermarkets
We are being poisoned, sickened and lied-to
Drag out those photos from the 50s, 60s and 70s -- look at us in our skin-tight flares and body-shirts. We looked like Slender Man compared with today. Yet we didn't consciously exercise, we ate everything that wasn't nailed down and the fattier, sweeter the better, coupled with full cream milks, full strength beers and full-fat bar-b-ques. Yes, that was before 'enriched' everything, before Chemtrails, before genetically modified foods and satanic Monsanto, before mandatory fluoride in everything
We were healthier then. We were smarter. We were happier. And we were a hell of a lot thinner
This 'obesity epidemic' attempts to blame the victims. If you buy the lies, you're a complicit victim to boot
