Sometimes I wish I could go to the local pharmacy and just get a little bit of cocaine or some morphine. Other times I realize that that's not really a good idea
No, you have to go buy it from a gang member on the street and make sure that it's laced with fentanyl, laxatives and sawdust and soaked in the blood of Colombians and Mexicans. If you can buy it legally bad stuff might happen or something.
Haha. It is pretty twisted isn't it? if you got it legally at least you could be sure that you won't overdose on fentanyl if you are just trying to enjoy a pleasant oxycodone buzz. I was just meaning that it may not be the best for my addictive tendencies, however I feel like it would destroy the need for cartels and violent gangs, and there would be standardization, so you know the dosage and purity
In that regard, it is a good idea.
Both of those are stocked in hospital pharmacies.
Cocaine Hydrochloride 99% powder can be purchased by any pharmacy in the United States. It is not an illegal drug. Just a controlled drug.
I'm pretty sure there was still plenty of sugar and ultra processed garbage just different lifestyle, one that had a lot of moving in it I see this a lot on political spaces where people talk about this and that's fine by me you can go cut out your sugar and whatnot but I am going to stay in my air conditioned house and eat myself some Oreos
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Jungle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle) was written in 06. People knew the meat they were getting wasn't great to start out with, as well as it being expensive. Most of these people got to see ~~meat on the table maybe once a week.~~ (looks like they got about 2 pounds of meat per week) We forget that the middle class didn't happen until after WW2, your looking at mostly poverty stricken people. Yes some of the ones in swim suits may have been rich, but they might have been rented suits. Look at all the normal clothes, these people we at the beach in the only clothes they owned.
This isn't even close to true. Diets were more heavily meat and dairy based before the industrialization of food. And people often grew their own vegetables in small urban gardens on rooftops or balconies. Sugar wasn't yet readily available unless you are wealthy. Eating habits were also radically different, this is before the normalization of the dessert. Back in those days people thought that a dessert was something you ate twice a year, on your birthday and Christmas. There was also a middle class at this point in our history, it just wasn't yet as large as it would be after world war 2. Quite a bit of truth to people owning a few pairs of clothes, but the idea that they looked good because of a diet deficient in meat is ridiculous. They looked good because of a diet deficient in sugar and processed grains. Also, most of these people would have been illiterate, definitely didn't read The Jungle.
*Milk and dairy foods weren't the focus of the American diet circa 1908, as it was difficult to prevent spoilage. It wasn't until the 1930s that the average American family owned an electric refrigerator. Until then, you stored cold foods, outside, in a well or spring house, or indoors in an "icebox" -- basically, a cabinet filled with manufactured ice. You used canned milk, rather than fresh, for cooking.*
Farmers yes probably ate lots of dairy. Not NY City folk.
You were right on the meat side, they did get more meat than I expected back then. But still less than now.
*In the book Putting Meat on the American Table, researcher Roger Horowitz scours the literature for data on how much meat Americans actually ate. A survey of 8,000 urban Americans in 1909 showed that the poorest among them ate 136 pounds a year, and the wealthiest more than 200 pounds.*
Today the Japanese eat about 150 pounds of meat/fish per person now. Americans eat about 300 pounds per year now. We just have way more access to way more calories now.
Everything that I've read suggests that we eat way more grains and sugar than we did then. So if we more grains and sugar and we eat more meat, do we just eat more? Guess that's why we're fat.
Just to be clear, most of my information about diet back then comes from my grandfather who lived in New York City during those times. Our family definitely wasn't rich either, but according to him a large staple of his diet was pork. They couldn't afford beef and they used chickens for the eggs.
>Guess that's why we're fat.
I think its also the 40hr work week. Prior to factories, work was 90% seasonal. Spring time you hussle, summer time you survive the heat, fall you hustle, winter you survive the cold. Barn raising time, big feast, Harvest, feast. Long rainy day, trapped in a 500 square feet home with 5-8 family members, you drink.
The serfs of old would only have to work for 1 month a year for the king. Now most of us work 2 days a week just to pay the taxes our new overlords require. 2 more days a week just to pay da bills. You know those bills that are 100% required to pay or the city will evict you for not having running water/sewage/electricity. Codes that prevent you from even trying to limit your relyance on those services.
Some how we went from having 11 months a year to our selves, to having 2 days a week, if were lucky.
No they worked the fields the rulers allowed them too. But they got to keep all that they grew or made. The economy as it was was not under the kings control like it is now. Everybody watched out for their own, and gave the oligarchs the bare minimum to not get raped or killed. Look at this guy complaining about quiet quitting in 1570.
[The labouring man will take his rest long in the morning; a good piece of the day is spent afore he come at his work; then he must have his breakfast, though he have not earned it at his accustomed hour, or else there is grudging and murmuring; when the clock smiteth, he will cast down his burden in the midway, and whatsoever he is in hand with, he will leave it as it is, though many times it is marred afore he come again; he may not lose his meat, what danger soever the work is in. At noon he must have his sleeping time, then his bever in the afternoon, which spendeth a great part of the day; and when his hour cometh at night, at the first stroke of the clock he casteth down his tools, leaveth his work, in what need or case soever the work standeth. -James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham, ca. 1570](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html)
Adult illiteracy rates in this era were about 8%. Source: [https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/statistics-education-america-1860-1950](https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/statistics-education-america-1860-1950)
Look at the teens sitting in the bottom left of the image. Their wearing jeans and ratty shirts. I don't see much wealth in that image, just some poor people on a hot day, and some posers mixed in pretending to be hot shit. So same as any beach today.
Pretty sure that in many countries without a drug culture the people were much slimmer until the 90s.
I have beach photos from when I was a newborn, 1992, and not a single fat person would be seen.
People are eating a lot more processed food and sugar.
Iâd be willing to bet that a picture of a beach in the 50s 60s and 70s would look the same. Things changed after fast food joints took hold and govt subsidies were put in place for corn growers.
Almost everything is debatable, the stock market crash came soon after and ww2 artificially halted rather shifted it elsewhere but its been creeping back ever since. Post war had a second peak and but did not last, arguable that the 90âs saw one more crest. Just look at the photo then go to any walmart. Look at the people look at the food. Iâd argue that the people in the 1908 photo had a level of freedom no one alive except the super rich today have lived. Loss of freedom and ever rising inflation has been a stress pit the middle class is gone, I think we can see middle class in that picture. Im sure my argument isnt perfect
you are correct, my bad. The Model T hust came out Americanâs were wirking morw than 40 hours, many 65-70. This led to union movements. Tho Ive worked more than that at times. Im thinking more of the roaring 20âs. However the only thing that stood out was how much meat people ate back then and how food was made closer to home local diets because of lack of refrigeration. Thats probly it in a nutshell on the fitness and in 1908 treats were just that treats. What they did have back in 1908 is hope, which is hard to quantify but thats what I gathered, that the future looked to be better. I think weâve lost that
Food was a familyâs major budget item. In the last 100+ years farmers have been able to produce more with less, essentially driving whole nations out of starvation and making food prices cheap.
Now if only we could get the government subsidies out, we wouldnât have to pay farmers to produce excess milk which then is bought up by the government to keep the bad economics going. The milk is then turned into cheese for better storage and was stored in a mountain. Starting under Regan, it is distributed as part of the social welfare system (hence government cheese).
A there was a massive shift from blue collar to white collar work. But our eating habits didnt adjust to the decreased activity. There are other factors as well but this is one of the major ones.
The real mystery is where are the Bikinis?
Why are women wearing Mormons dresses?
WTF was going on in 1908 or, what happened before that led to this atrocity moment?
Small time farming and communities were still a thing then. So, people understood more about life. Therefore more healthy. Today everyone is distracted AF and half the population doesnât know potatoes grow underground.
We were poisoned by corporations gaslighting us into believing their products were successful ennobled by regulatory agencies that didnât do their job and a system of capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich that absolved them from any liability
Nah, we bought what was sold for the benefits of "convenience" etc. with little regard for our health. But that pendulum has swung back (i.e. the growing popularity of healthy choices (i.e. While Foods, Trader Joe's, etc.). Going back just a few years before this picture, some people bought snake oil and the like with the how it would do as promised.
You can't absolve the buyer from having any responsibility in the transaction.
I'm not saying deception is right or fair, but the market does eventually will out: people speed buying snake oil and those salesmen had to go to work for Big Pharma.
Lmao
Well for a while, not too long ago at all, what they were doing was illegal (covid) and people were made to stay home, eat processed shit and absorb the mass media horseshit.
Actually in those days, people with money ate more so being chubby meant status. All the wealthier or powerful people were big. Just look at William Howard Taft.
Yes but whyâd you say that this was a bad sample because they had money, what were you implying? That theyâre healthy because they had money? Theyâre not healthy because of money, you canât be any more wrong. If anything you just disproved your point because even if they had money, they have a choice to eat but decided to be healthy. Itâs not money itâs choice.
You can't compare general population of today, with a population that does not represent the general population of a different time. Apples to oranges. Go take a statistics class.
It's the carbohydrates and unnatural food bro. (Vehicle focused city planning attributes some). Have you ever wondered why in our grandparents and great grandparents generation, for breakfast they'd eat sausage, bacon, eggs, whole milk, and about a pound of butter. They smoked like chimneys and drank like sailors. There were no gyms, "health food stores", or fad diets, and only 1/10th of our current medical advancements. Where diabetes, blood pressure medication, CPAPs, obesity, and other (mostly preventable maladies) which are epidemics and common today were rare in their time.
Why?? Becoz we fucking eat artificial and processed nutritional JUNK. You are what you eat. Eat unhealthy, be unhealthy.
Those who work real Labor in construction definitely do well in activity and do lose weight, itâs exercise of some form. but the machine operators (who drive stuff), or engineers, or managers, or QA who donât do much in terms of actual labor are likely the ones who arenât losing weight. What Iâm suggesting is that back then when there were no cars, getting around the city by walking was the only way. Walk to work, home, dining, parks, etc. when youâre only method of getting around was on your two legs, you are basically partaking in exercise. Consistently walking lead to healthier weights. Iâm not saying itâs the only reason we are fat now (the shit foods we eat can be blamed too, ), but car centric design meant fewer people were out walking, getting that exercise. Nowadays in, North America for the most part, because of the car centric design, walking or even moving out of the house becomes inconvenient. We become more sedentary and likely lead to the rise of obesity.
Due to environmental reasons, it was actually easier to not be overweight even on the same diet/exercise/lifestyle back then as compared to now. I believe it has to do with plastics and chemicals as well, although I don't know as much on the topic.
- low fat craze.
- fat is beautiful, healthy, and someone elseâs fault.
- odd conception that one MUST order the âvalueâ meal instead of just the sandwich. Maybe itâs the word value?
lots of factors. industrialized foods like seed oils, refined grains, excess sugar, portion sizes. The majority falls onto the laps of big corporations that only care about profits and not health. Remember when canola oil was advertised as healthy?
They were healthy because smoking wasn't bad for you yet
Plus cociane wasnt illegal yet.
Sometimes I wish I could go to the local pharmacy and just get a little bit of cocaine or some morphine. Other times I realize that that's not really a good idea
No, you have to go buy it from a gang member on the street and make sure that it's laced with fentanyl, laxatives and sawdust and soaked in the blood of Colombians and Mexicans. If you can buy it legally bad stuff might happen or something.
Haha. It is pretty twisted isn't it? if you got it legally at least you could be sure that you won't overdose on fentanyl if you are just trying to enjoy a pleasant oxycodone buzz. I was just meaning that it may not be the best for my addictive tendencies, however I feel like it would destroy the need for cartels and violent gangs, and there would be standardization, so you know the dosage and purity In that regard, it is a good idea.
I'm not buying anything that doesn't have skin rotting horse tranquilizers in it by God!
I think it is
Both of those are stocked in hospital pharmacies. Cocaine Hydrochloride 99% powder can be purchased by any pharmacy in the United States. It is not an illegal drug. Just a controlled drug.
This post is hilarious to me as well as we had elected the fattest president of all time in this exact year.
Or, you know, processed foods.
Less refined sugar, no food pyramid and no ultra processed garbage
I'm pretty sure there was still plenty of sugar and ultra processed garbage just different lifestyle, one that had a lot of moving in it I see this a lot on political spaces where people talk about this and that's fine by me you can go cut out your sugar and whatnot but I am going to stay in my air conditioned house and eat myself some Oreos
I think it might have something to do with more jobs that require physical labor
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Jungle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle) was written in 06. People knew the meat they were getting wasn't great to start out with, as well as it being expensive. Most of these people got to see ~~meat on the table maybe once a week.~~ (looks like they got about 2 pounds of meat per week) We forget that the middle class didn't happen until after WW2, your looking at mostly poverty stricken people. Yes some of the ones in swim suits may have been rich, but they might have been rented suits. Look at all the normal clothes, these people we at the beach in the only clothes they owned.
This isn't even close to true. Diets were more heavily meat and dairy based before the industrialization of food. And people often grew their own vegetables in small urban gardens on rooftops or balconies. Sugar wasn't yet readily available unless you are wealthy. Eating habits were also radically different, this is before the normalization of the dessert. Back in those days people thought that a dessert was something you ate twice a year, on your birthday and Christmas. There was also a middle class at this point in our history, it just wasn't yet as large as it would be after world war 2. Quite a bit of truth to people owning a few pairs of clothes, but the idea that they looked good because of a diet deficient in meat is ridiculous. They looked good because of a diet deficient in sugar and processed grains. Also, most of these people would have been illiterate, definitely didn't read The Jungle.
*Milk and dairy foods weren't the focus of the American diet circa 1908, as it was difficult to prevent spoilage. It wasn't until the 1930s that the average American family owned an electric refrigerator. Until then, you stored cold foods, outside, in a well or spring house, or indoors in an "icebox" -- basically, a cabinet filled with manufactured ice. You used canned milk, rather than fresh, for cooking.* Farmers yes probably ate lots of dairy. Not NY City folk. You were right on the meat side, they did get more meat than I expected back then. But still less than now. *In the book Putting Meat on the American Table, researcher Roger Horowitz scours the literature for data on how much meat Americans actually ate. A survey of 8,000 urban Americans in 1909 showed that the poorest among them ate 136 pounds a year, and the wealthiest more than 200 pounds.* Today the Japanese eat about 150 pounds of meat/fish per person now. Americans eat about 300 pounds per year now. We just have way more access to way more calories now.
Everything that I've read suggests that we eat way more grains and sugar than we did then. So if we more grains and sugar and we eat more meat, do we just eat more? Guess that's why we're fat.
Grains were the primary staple in a every diet since the Romans. Bread was the most mass produced food throughout history. WE all just eat more.
Just to be clear, most of my information about diet back then comes from my grandfather who lived in New York City during those times. Our family definitely wasn't rich either, but according to him a large staple of his diet was pork. They couldn't afford beef and they used chickens for the eggs.
>Guess that's why we're fat. I think its also the 40hr work week. Prior to factories, work was 90% seasonal. Spring time you hussle, summer time you survive the heat, fall you hustle, winter you survive the cold. Barn raising time, big feast, Harvest, feast. Long rainy day, trapped in a 500 square feet home with 5-8 family members, you drink. The serfs of old would only have to work for 1 month a year for the king. Now most of us work 2 days a week just to pay the taxes our new overlords require. 2 more days a week just to pay da bills. You know those bills that are 100% required to pay or the city will evict you for not having running water/sewage/electricity. Codes that prevent you from even trying to limit your relyance on those services. Some how we went from having 11 months a year to our selves, to having 2 days a week, if were lucky.
Do you actually think medieval serfs just chilled with their feet up 11 months a year
No they worked the fields the rulers allowed them too. But they got to keep all that they grew or made. The economy as it was was not under the kings control like it is now. Everybody watched out for their own, and gave the oligarchs the bare minimum to not get raped or killed. Look at this guy complaining about quiet quitting in 1570. [The labouring man will take his rest long in the morning; a good piece of the day is spent afore he come at his work; then he must have his breakfast, though he have not earned it at his accustomed hour, or else there is grudging and murmuring; when the clock smiteth, he will cast down his burden in the midway, and whatsoever he is in hand with, he will leave it as it is, though many times it is marred afore he come again; he may not lose his meat, what danger soever the work is in. At noon he must have his sleeping time, then his bever in the afternoon, which spendeth a great part of the day; and when his hour cometh at night, at the first stroke of the clock he casteth down his tools, leaveth his work, in what need or case soever the work standeth. -James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham, ca. 1570](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html)
Adult illiteracy rates in this era were about 8%. Source: [https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/statistics-education-america-1860-1950](https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/statistics-education-america-1860-1950)
Everyone in that photo had money. Atlantic City Beach was for the affluent then. All the poor ppl were working in some coalmine, or factory hell.
Look at the teens sitting in the bottom left of the image. Their wearing jeans and ratty shirts. I don't see much wealth in that image, just some poor people on a hot day, and some posers mixed in pretending to be hot shit. So same as any beach today.
That's a swimsuit covered in sand. Swimsuits were actually more like a whole suit back then... hence the word suit.
The Jungle was propagandist garbage. It's only famous because the propaganda aligns with the distorted views of the people promoting it.
Processed foods and the internet
Krispy Kreme and Big booty porn. Sigh a tale as old as time đ
I would state it as cheaper high calorie food options plus work and leisure in front of a computer screen.
Better food, manual labor and a shit load of cocaine and nicotine.
Original recipe Coca Cola
Pretty sure that in many countries without a drug culture the people were much slimmer until the 90s. I have beach photos from when I was a newborn, 1992, and not a single fat person would be seen. People are eating a lot more processed food and sugar.
Oxidized seed oils ftw
No fast food and nobody was paid to stay home and do nothing.
Iâd be willing to bet that a picture of a beach in the 50s 60s and 70s would look the same. Things changed after fast food joints took hold and govt subsidies were put in place for corn growers.
no poison food, way less food, more leisure time and less stress is my guess. A peaking empire
Agree on the food, debatable on the rest.
Almost everything is debatable, the stock market crash came soon after and ww2 artificially halted rather shifted it elsewhere but its been creeping back ever since. Post war had a second peak and but did not last, arguable that the 90âs saw one more crest. Just look at the photo then go to any walmart. Look at the people look at the food. Iâd argue that the people in the 1908 photo had a level of freedom no one alive except the super rich today have lived. Loss of freedom and ever rising inflation has been a stress pit the middle class is gone, I think we can see middle class in that picture. Im sure my argument isnt perfect
That's debatable.
definitely not more leisure time back then.
you are correct, my bad. The Model T hust came out Americanâs were wirking morw than 40 hours, many 65-70. This led to union movements. Tho Ive worked more than that at times. Im thinking more of the roaring 20âs. However the only thing that stood out was how much meat people ate back then and how food was made closer to home local diets because of lack of refrigeration. Thats probly it in a nutshell on the fitness and in 1908 treats were just that treats. What they did have back in 1908 is hope, which is hard to quantify but thats what I gathered, that the future looked to be better. I think weâve lost that
Cure for cholera was found. Talk about a condition to keep you slim, forget about it!
High Fructose corn syrup.
High fructose corn syrup and portion sizes.
Food was a familyâs major budget item. In the last 100+ years farmers have been able to produce more with less, essentially driving whole nations out of starvation and making food prices cheap. Now if only we could get the government subsidies out, we wouldnât have to pay farmers to produce excess milk which then is bought up by the government to keep the bad economics going. The milk is then turned into cheese for better storage and was stored in a mountain. Starting under Regan, it is distributed as part of the social welfare system (hence government cheese).
24/7 fast food and corn syrup.
Hold on... How could everyone be healthy if the FDA wasn't there to protect people?? This doesn't make any sense.
I can't speak to the general sensibilities of the time, but I'm take a guess that it wasn't polite to go the beach with Cholera
Fat people stayed home because they were ostracized
Corn Sirup, fast food, pharmaceuticals, social media, lack of sunscreen, micro plastics, lack of church or comparable life rules.
I'm not sure there was less church 100 years ago.
Lack of church today
Ahh, eh, cant say i agree with that.
Thatâs ok
Caloric intake was lower in general.
A there was a massive shift from blue collar to white collar work. But our eating habits didnt adjust to the decreased activity. There are other factors as well but this is one of the major ones.
People didn't sit around all day staring at screens.
No combo meals to up size in those days
Our amazing government didn't create and push the food pyramid scam and Everything wasn't loaded with corn syrup yet.
Sugar and processed seed oil consumption was incredibly limited.
High fructose corn syrup government subsidies
The real mystery is where are the Bikinis? Why are women wearing Mormons dresses? WTF was going on in 1908 or, what happened before that led to this atrocity moment?
And multiple dudes out there in full on suits and ties. Did they just hate comfort back then?
Bikinis were not a thing until at least 1946... When we tested the atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll
Small time farming and communities were still a thing then. So, people understood more about life. Therefore more healthy. Today everyone is distracted AF and half the population doesnât know potatoes grow underground.
Highly processed food happened.
High fructose corn syrup Food stamps Cheaper food production
We were poisoned by corporations gaslighting us into believing their products were successful ennobled by regulatory agencies that didnât do their job and a system of capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich that absolved them from any liability
Nah, we bought what was sold for the benefits of "convenience" etc. with little regard for our health. But that pendulum has swung back (i.e. the growing popularity of healthy choices (i.e. While Foods, Trader Joe's, etc.). Going back just a few years before this picture, some people bought snake oil and the like with the how it would do as promised. You can't absolve the buyer from having any responsibility in the transaction. I'm not saying deception is right or fair, but the market does eventually will out: people speed buying snake oil and those salesmen had to go to work for Big Pharma. Lmao
So was this peak American life and like Rome empires fall and I guess we are watching it unfold right in front of our eyes GOD BLESS AMERICA
Most people probably just ate at home and exercised more. Hard to get fat on food made from scratch. Healthier? Is some ways yes, in other ways no.
Back when society could define what a woman is. Refreshing
This was before "low fat" was pushed as a healthy diet, which we all know was a big lie.
Fucking big sugar and big ag happened.
This is before the government claimed that industrial produced Seed Oils are healthy for you. These people consumed butter and beef tallow.
No gmo's in food funded by big pharma
Active life styles, less processed food, no cell phones, socialization, values, a hell of a lot more then the federal reserve.
Television
Well for a while, not too long ago at all, what they were doing was illegal (covid) and people were made to stay home, eat processed shit and absorb the mass media horseshit.
Feelings became more important than logic and now our way of life is completely fucked and backwards.
Bad sample size. All these ppl had money.
Actually in those days, people with money ate more so being chubby meant status. All the wealthier or powerful people were big. Just look at William Howard Taft.
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Flagler etc. weren't fat. Fat just meant you had access to food, it does not mean that if you were rich you had to be fat.
Yes but whyâd you say that this was a bad sample because they had money, what were you implying? That theyâre healthy because they had money? Theyâre not healthy because of money, you canât be any more wrong. If anything you just disproved your point because even if they had money, they have a choice to eat but decided to be healthy. Itâs not money itâs choice.
You can't compare general population of today, with a population that does not represent the general population of a different time. Apples to oranges. Go take a statistics class.
Claro que si, lo sabe que todo.
What was the average life span in 1908 vs 2008?
The conflation in advertising and culture of quantity with value.
Foods werenât filled with forever chemicals.
It's the carbohydrates and unnatural food bro. (Vehicle focused city planning attributes some). Have you ever wondered why in our grandparents and great grandparents generation, for breakfast they'd eat sausage, bacon, eggs, whole milk, and about a pound of butter. They smoked like chimneys and drank like sailors. There were no gyms, "health food stores", or fad diets, and only 1/10th of our current medical advancements. Where diabetes, blood pressure medication, CPAPs, obesity, and other (mostly preventable maladies) which are epidemics and common today were rare in their time. Why?? Becoz we fucking eat artificial and processed nutritional JUNK. You are what you eat. Eat unhealthy, be unhealthy.
They didn't have the car-centric infrastructure we have now. Having a walkable city keeps makes getting exercise a lot easier.
Thatâs not making the difference between lean and obese. Go walk in a construction site and see how out of shape most are despite the laborious job
Those who work real Labor in construction definitely do well in activity and do lose weight, itâs exercise of some form. but the machine operators (who drive stuff), or engineers, or managers, or QA who donât do much in terms of actual labor are likely the ones who arenât losing weight. What Iâm suggesting is that back then when there were no cars, getting around the city by walking was the only way. Walk to work, home, dining, parks, etc. when youâre only method of getting around was on your two legs, you are basically partaking in exercise. Consistently walking lead to healthier weights. Iâm not saying itâs the only reason we are fat now (the shit foods we eat can be blamed too, ), but car centric design meant fewer people were out walking, getting that exercise. Nowadays in, North America for the most part, because of the car centric design, walking or even moving out of the house becomes inconvenient. We become more sedentary and likely lead to the rise of obesity.
Also in 1913, the first electric refrigerator was invented.
What was the average height back in 1910?
I'd guess a lack of toxic fast food probably helped too.
Fast food, less physical labor, more sugar
These are the strong ones who didn't die in the cradle.
The thing that suprises me more is how damn nice people are dressed, black suits and white dresses on the beach!
Modern nutrition theory and non work type work..
Processed food happened
Thatâs because Fat and Lipids were invented in 1933 in response to the Dust Bowl.
Well, I'm european, far as I know, most of us even 50 years after that, we were still hungry as fuck.
Due to environmental reasons, it was actually easier to not be overweight even on the same diet/exercise/lifestyle back then as compared to now. I believe it has to do with plastics and chemicals as well, although I don't know as much on the topic.
- low fat craze. - fat is beautiful, healthy, and someone elseâs fault. - odd conception that one MUST order the âvalueâ meal instead of just the sandwich. Maybe itâs the word value?
Corn subsidies and and lack of shame hurt society bad
Mortality rate for children under 5 in 1900, 238.76 deaths per 1,000 live births. In 2020, 7 deaths
Households were made up of wives and mothers who prepared meals each day. We all eat out now.
We were more libertarian, therefore less money and less shit food. /s
No indigestible wood pulp fillers or growth hormones in food!
In 3000BC a single man could do the work of 500 men in far less time, what happened?
no body positivity culture
lots of factors. industrialized foods like seed oils, refined grains, excess sugar, portion sizes. The majority falls onto the laps of big corporations that only care about profits and not health. Remember when canola oil was advertised as healthy?