That's because everybody was dancing and farking, most food did not come from a box or drivethru, TV had 4 channels (if you were in a big city) and there were no homecomputers/cell phones/internets.

Ok, I was in high school a little after that (roughly a decade, won't get more specific), and yes, I now live in Texas which is more prone to obesity than my childhood home - but not by THAT much.

Still, the pictures are shocking when I look at a class photo from my high school and one of my kids'. Amusingly, the clothing styles are more similar than I would have expected, but damn - the stockiest kid in my 9th grade class would be at the lower bound of the current 9th grade class in the 'burbs of Houston. I am sticking every bit of money I have into diabetes maintenance outfits.

I certainly am glad ADM and Coca-Cola are making a buck, but Jesus Diabetic Christ....

I find fat people problems funny as they usually involve failing at moderation of something.

I mean, I encourage people to make that choice, and if you WANT to overindulge, then more power to you. Just don't complain about it and no, I do not want to pay for your health care.

/usually
//freedom

Some of those aren't that bad. At least I don't believe I saw any polyester which would infiltrate the following decade. That stuff itches my skin.

Hush, puppies.

the answer to (D) is so simple. it isnt one thing, but a couple.
1) buses - kids used to walk more and ride buses to school. none of that rides from mom BS
2) walking - some kids actually were able to walk to school or walked to the public bus stop and took that bus.
3) cane sugar vs HFCS - HFCS was rapidly introduced to many processed foods and soft drinks in the U.S. from about 1975 to 1985.
(( cane is ~100 sucrose ( a disaccharide  ) whereas HFCS is made up of two monosaccharides ))

combining these two major issues would lead to fat americans.

TADA
stop drinking soda
start walking more

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: [everyfit.com image 582x379]

include the line where HFCS was introduced
include the line showing the number of kids going to HS in suburbs

then we can talk

GAT_00: sweet-daddy-2: Power to the People, Right On.

Oh yeah, you did a whole lot of good there, wearing ridiculous pants. You sure fixed all those world problems!

Seriously. Everybody knows that weird funky pants won't solve anything if you aren't trending on Twitter or getting Facebook likes.

/Kony 2012

'Tis true. Even I was thin in 1969. Then again, I was only 7...

In the late 1970s, when I was in high school, there were very few fat kids.

namatad: the answer to (D) is so simple. it isnt one thing, but a couple.
1) buses - kids used to walk more and ride buses to school. none of that rides from mom BS
2) walking - some kids actually were able to walk to school or walked to the public bus stop and took that bus.
3) cane sugar vs HFCS - HFCS was rapidly introduced to many processed foods and soft drinks in the U.S. from about 1975 to 1985.
(( cane is ~100 sucrose ( a disaccharide  ) whereas HFCS is made up of two monosaccharides ))

combining these two major issues would lead to fat americans.

TADA
stop drinking soda
start walking more

4) Video games didn't exist, so kids weren't inclined to sit indoors all day long.
5) If kids did decide to stay indoors and watch TV, they still didn't park themselves on the couch or floor for hours at a time, because someone had to get up to change the TV channel or adjust the volume or the rabbit ears (remote controlled TVs existed, but were pretty rare). Also, fewer channels meant fewer programs, and consequently less incentive to spend lotsa time watching TV in the first place.
6) We had awesome bikes.

All of you.  That's how many of you I would kill for the chance to 1969 that.

Every single one of the people in those pictures joined the Manson Family and is now in prison.

I was a very young kid then, but yeah people weren't fat. Or at least in every neighborhood they're be at most one overweight family and they were subject to many predictable jokes.

It wasn't until the early '80s as I was walking around a mall that I suddenly looked around and said WTF is up with all these fat people? And it's been all downhill from there.

Lorelle:
6) We had awesome bikes.

This, of course, can not be overstated.

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All of you.  That's how many of you I would kill for the chance to 1969 that.

She has that late-1960s/early-1970s Cher thing going on. I admired Cher soooo much...always wanted hair like that.

namatad: include the line where HFCS was introduced

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All of you.  That's how many of you I would kill for the chance to 1969 that.

Oh hells yes.

GAT_00: cmunic8r99: namatad: include the line where HFCS was introduced

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Yes, that's very useful without being able to determine what the y axis represents.

He wanted to see when HFCS was introduced. The graph shows when HFCS was intruduced.

You should try being less obtuse on occasion.

Aside from the lack of obesity, I don't see any practitioners of  self-mutilation, oops, I'm being insensitive!  I mean tattoos, piercings, ginormous ear holes, carving, branding, and and FSM knows what other body "modifications" are in vogue.

These days, I see packs of teens/20somethings who are inked up and have a good 12 ounces of metal in their faces.

No fat people, minorities were minorities, and these same people hadn't yet destroyed the world.
Truly it was a paradise.

How many had a buffalo's forehead?

my favorite hippie

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: The way I remember it was breakfast was hot or cold cereal, lunch was a sandwich(not a sub) and some chips and supper was meat and vegetables. Dessert Saturday night, fast food after church, one snack after school and maybe one glass of pop a day in the summer.

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I'll be in my psychedelic bunk...

I am so shocked that they didn't take any pictures of ugly/overweight people. So shocked.

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: The way I remember it was breakfast was hot or cold cereal, lunch was a sandwich(not a sub) and some chips and supper was meat and vegetables. Dessert Saturday night, fast food after church, one snack after school and maybe one glass of pop a day in the summer.

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Holy shiat - were you secretly living with my family????

God-is-a-Taco: No fat people, minorities were minorities, and these same people hadn't yet destroyed the world.
Truly it was a paradise.

Unless you liked breathing.

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You could not go outside to play in the '60-70s because it hurt to breathe.

The good ol' days are sometimes not very good.

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All of you.  That's how many of you I would kill for the chance to 1969 that.

Hot, Asian, braless, hippy, era of 'free love'.... Yeah, I'd commit unspeakable horrors to hit that as well.

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: The way I remember it was breakfast was hot or cold cereal, lunch was a sandwich(not a sub) and some chips and supper was meat and vegetables. Dessert Saturday night, fast food after church, one snack after school and maybe one glass of pop a day in the summer.

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Susan Dey, any day.