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Why Everyone Was Healthy in the 1950s (Without Even Trying)
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- Published on Apr 17, 2026
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In nineteen fifty two, the average American man weighed about one hundred sixty six pounds. The average American woman weighed about one hundred forty.
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The reason people were healthy in the 1950s and part of the 1960s is simply because mega-corporations were not poisoning people with harmful chemicals and ultra-processed foods. Foods were wholesome and natural back then.
Yup the boom of the fast food industry grew exponentially in the late 70’s-80’s
Yes but the rise of those foods came about because of women working and looking for convenience-also single parent households. Moms used to make things "from scratch".
@tubecontributor3206 I 100% agree with you. It has been a slow and steady decline over the past many decades since the middle class was squeezed out bit by bit. With both parents working to make one household work, the children most often suffer.
@tubecontributor3206until a single income could not support a family anymore
Sooo TRUE!!
I was born in 1955. I still eat like my parents and grandparents did. Everything from scratch no highly processed foods and very little sugar. When I graduated from high school I was 125 pounds and I’m still 125 pounds.
Congratulations, boomer lol
@johnnypiss Actually I’m generation Jones and I’m guessing you’re a millennial 😂
@blueskiesatx I was just messing with you. And if we’re doing that “micro generation” thing, then I’m a xennial.
God bless you...😊
You go girl that's awesome
I have started the "no snacking after dinner" rule.
And I am going to buy some 9" dinner plates. Just two changes, but it's a start for now.
Good for you. I intend to do the same.
Intermittent fasting
@A@AINomad520 was going to say the same thing! I lost 60 pounds doing intermittent fasting since August. 305lbs to 245! Still working on it
@brad3201I just feel lighter too
@AINomad520 I had arthritis in my left knee that developed after an injury years ago and after losing the weight the knee pain is like 90% gone!
Edit I was 305 pounds and this morning was 238
Simpler times. I remember my Grandmother's home sounding just like this. Good old days. I miss her.
This is how I lost so much weight. 2 or 3 meals a day. No snacks. No junk food. If I had a choice of junk food or nothing, I chose nothing.
Same thing worked for me. No snacks, no junk, and I swapped scrolling for strolling :)
@BonusChipthat's good advice
The 1950’s was before the FDA started poisoning us with crazy azz ingredients, that cause obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and neurological disorders.
And deadly seed oils (peanut oil, cottonseed oil, canola oil, safflower oil, vegetable oil) that have no business in our food and has given a huge percentage of people fatty liver disease.
You are ignoring the "elephant in the room"-women were home and able to make home cooked meals because there were traditional families PLUS less divorce (so you didn't have a single mom who would look for convenience foods like hot pockets). Women make food from scratch, the 6 pm dinner was because the family waited for dad to come home from work.. The rise of junky foods came about as a result of women working outside the home and single parenthood.
You know it's poison and you still eat it? Do you have a garden?
" . . . not a ceramic bucket . . . " (coffee cup) 😂
I love my ceramic bucket! 😂😂
I just realized I waste most of the coffee/tea in my mugs and just a cup and saucer size was ideal for me so I gave all my mugs away. I love how fun they are but they’re just taking up space. ❤
It reminds me of something I witnessed firsthand in a 7-11 convenience store years ago now. I had gone in to get a cup of coffee one morning and as I was getting ready to pour a cup, this guy comes in hurriedly with the giant red thermos that 7-11 sold and the guy literally took one entire POT of coffee and poured it in his thermos and then grabbed another pot and poured at least half of it in the thermos too. I actually did laugh and I thought, "Good grief I wonder if he will have enough?" Ridiculous. I love me some coffee, but seriously that was nuts.
@Aimee-mf9zl that Is a Lot!! 😯
IKR?! I feel so called out 😅
Ive grown up in south africa, born in 1991 and the 1950s lifestyle is what i grew up with. Dinner at 5 30, bed by 8, breakfast served at 6 30 am before school. sandwich and a juice-no snacks or packaged food. Went to bed with no screens, and tv time was a common program we all liked. A movie treat on Saturday was homemade pizza and a walk to Blockbuster. Weird to be nostalgic about it but it was such a normal way of life. I feel quite sad my daughter cant experience playing outside until it gets dark, running around with other kids. But I do try and instill the same traditions and ways of life I experienced as a child but its much harder!!
I grew up in the States in the 80’s and this was how it was in my home and neighborhood. I think it didn’t really change until the 2000’s when internet entered everyone’s home…
Same was in Poland, born in 1976
I was born in 1992 in USA in Virginia and had the same upbringing with my Ghanaian parents. The playing outside till it is dark and family trip to blockbuster part made me smile 🥹
I remember everyone thought Mama Cass was huge and she was for the time (late 60's, early 70's). People made fun of her and she was the example of a famous fat person. Now everyone looks like Mama Cass. She'd actually be on the lighter side for the average American.
I loved that they were dressed up which is another thing you don't see today. I see people out and about in PJ's.
My mother wore pretty dresses, matching purse and gloves, nice shoes and inexpensive but stylish jewelry. Born in 1935 until she died in 2023, she wore simple and attractive clothing (even her aprons were pretty). She could never understand the sloppy clothing worn in modern North America - baggy shapeless sweatpants, tight yoga pants, pyjamas.
@Res_ipsa_loquitur99My mother and grandmother always dressed up to leave the house and it didn't matter where they were going. I'm with your mom..I don't get that either but unfortunately that's the personal style today. I loved and miss those days!!
We wouldn’t have left the house dressed like some people do now dad or mom would have strung us up I should say me as I was an only child
@KathyMcCoy-m5elol..it was me and 3 brothers but like you they would have strung me up too 😖
And no GMO and ultra processed food. No high fructose corn syrup no cancer causing dyes
Look at the Japanese. Their portion size is tiny. Their glasses are 6oz. Their plates and bowls are small. Yet, Japanese people are slim, energetic, and healthy.
and they live to be 100 because the additives in their food is minimal when compared to the petroleum based toxic metal additives that the FDA is pleased to allow manufacturers to conveniently drop in Americans diet.
The majority didn't have sitting jobs. They didn't consume "coffee" drinks that have 2000+ calories before you add the whipped cream. If they wanted cake they had to bake it. They didn't demonize fat and replace it with sugar that screws with satiety. Sodas were considered a treat, not part of a meal.
Cakes, sodas, etc. were only allowed on special occasions when I grew up. Even when we had ice cream, Mom bought "ice milk" (today's 'reduced fat) or sherbet because it was cheaper.
So true and kids today don’t understand simple pleasures. Once a month we’d visit my grandmother in the country. It was an absolute thrill for me to walk the 1/2 mile with my cousins to the general store and get a soda. So many flavors, you’d have to take the time to choose since this would be the only carbonated drink for a month. I never demanded more. I never even wanted more. Now Kids today are just used to instant gratification.
In the 1950’s England, my mother and I walked to the shops (the green grocer, the fish monger, the butcher, the baker) every single weekday morning after the household chores were done. We probably walked a mile each way. We bought groceries just for that one day, plus breakfast the next morning.
On Saturdays we took the car to shop in Bury St. Edmunds. On Sundays we always took the dogs to the woods for a long walk. Simple routines. Lots of exercise.
I remember the wonderful scent of laundry dried on the line, those so called scented detergents don't hold a candle to that scent. I love folding warm laundry, the scent is wonderful.
I still do that today as soon as weather breaks. Whiter whites and no polluting laundry softeners. Gets me outside more too.
Me too love my clothes line.😊
I dry my clothes on indoor racks. Best way to do it when the cc&r's don't allow clothes lines. 😊
What do you wash it with? Where is the smell coming from? Sorry I’m young I don’t understand this stuff but I want to try it!
I've had to dry my clothes on plenty of clotheslines outside and let me tell you there is nothing quite like a sun-dried pair of pants and your favorite fitted t-shirt. It All fits and feels a thousand times better out on the line than in a dryer.
My mother was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1949 so not everybody was healthy
Smoking kept them slim !
Hahah well there is that!
Born in the 60s and grew up in the 70s. Most of this still applied. I remember eating seasonally, so excited when fresh fruit arrived. We ate very small portions, by today's standards. No dessert, no snacks and my mother ate twice a day. I never saw an overweight person until I was in my late teens. Now I see obese people daily. It's killing people for gods sakes.
Born in 1964...Agree with you 100%. .
Yes, same in my family. Breakfast before school, which I picked at. I still do not eat until after 10 am most days. Lunch was a sandwich and an apple or maybe an orange. Sometimes we would get cinnamon toast for an after school snack or a slice of cheese, but that was not common. Dinner was whatever was served, and you ate it or went hungry. No snacks in the evening doing homework or the rare TV program, except maybe on Saturday when mom made popcorn on the stovetop. We had one bowl each and that was it.
Being a homemaker back then actually was hard.
I'd say automation and high fructose corn syrup , plus cheap corporate fast food contributed most.
Id say no one at home making one anymore is most of it.
Feminism contributes most
Nope-those are the effects but not the causes. Women working created a demand for fast food and single parent households were also more price conscious. The demand led to what you are describing. Years ago, women would be embarrassed to say that they didn't bake a cake from scratch.
@tubecontributor3206exactly feminists destroyed society
This is really spot on! At 65, as I change my diet for heart health, it's said that you should have 4 servings of fruit, 5-6 servings of whole grain type, 5 servings of leafy greens (which the latter is 2 cups raw or 1 cup cooked) --- absolutely insane amount of food I could never eat in a day! I remember my mother setting out the food on the table, and the cooked veggies were in a really small bowl (because I now have this bowl) by today's standards for 4 of us! Older tea cups aren't mugs! The constant snacking, and the sheer amount of food now along with the amount of junk food and drink is just mind numbing. Not only that, we moved more. Thanks for the reminder!
They would be healthy in the 1950s.....
IF CIGARETTE SMOKE Wasn't EVERYWHERE!!🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬
FOODS WERE BASIC
4 FOOD GROUPS
At 46 I just got a heart stent! I’ve known about plant based eating and have several years out of the last 10. But I can’t consume as much as they recommend in a day no matter how I try!
My mother of seven children said we could afford butter because we didn’t eat potato chips. We ate out about once a month, and on vacations.
We all had Grand parents and parents who lived thru The Great Depression of the 1930’s before Social Security and Welfare. The way they bought, served and saved foods was a direct effect of those 1930 Hard Times.
😂 omg the Big Gulp!
At 11pm the 3 channels went off the air !
I was born in 1955. My dad did not allow sugar, chips, sweets of any kind and no soda. My mom made homemade apple pie when in season. We had dessert only a couple times a year. And, I blame my in laws for my sugar addiction. My mother in law had dessert at every dinner. I had to eat it. One time I told her it was too sweet and she gasped and said, too sweet?? Now, I have a sweet tooth, especially early morning and after dinner.
We also were always playing outside. I loved to run and bike. I maintained my bike. The chain slipped, I fixed it. The tire went flat, I got a bucket of water, found the hole and fixed it. My dad was always at work. I walked with my grandmother to the butcher, baker and small store for other foods.
The good ol’ days. Miss it.
What a great life and memories 😊.....Just like my younger years too....!!!
We should return to that era
I grew up in the 1940's50's. Dinner was 6pm sharp. We barely ate the last mouthful and we had to do the dishes...maybe that is why I procrastinate now. We went to the playground after school until my mother called us home for dinner. My mother made everything from scratch, no snacking and soda only on Sundays. So this video was quite accurate. Lights out at 9:30 even when I was in high school!
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I miss family time. We had so much then and now😢
Women took speed. My grandma was 10 pounds overweight and her doc put her on speed
This is so true.I remember thinking that Ethel on I Love Lucy was a fat woman! Sure not by today's standards!
Really?
@bont7948 I believe this. They were called "diet pills" and were very commonly prescribed. They were amphetamines. My sister was always overweight through her whole life and whenever she went to the doctors weight was always addressed and they always asked her if she wanted to try "diet pills"...even when she was a very young teenager in the 1970s. She didn't.
You know what? That's another issue...weight was always addressed at the doctor's office in the 60s and 70s. And they really went by those charts by sex and height. Maybe they are doing it more now since the new weight loss meds but even really overweight people weren't seriously talked to about their weight in the 2000s. I have a medical family. Mostly you would just see in the notes no matter how obese the person "Aim for 10% weight loss."
What’s that? Yes I agree about drugs for women back then.
No fast food, Moms cooked dinner every night, kids ran and played outside not sat on sofas playing with social media, the only thing that got delivered was milk and the newspaper.
We walk to the grocery store. Wash laundry by hand in the kitchen sink. Wash dishes by hand. Walk everywhere. Almost never have enough food for 3 meals a day or big meals. Meat and fresh produce are a luxury.
Love this video ❤. I was born in 53. This video is spot on. Very nostalgic and brought back alot of memories. 😊
Don't forget the can of beer and the pack of cigarettes
Our neighborhood was full of kids, we were all friends same age groups, families with 3-4 kids, my brothers and I had chores, I set the table, mom cooked and washed dishes, I dried. We each cleaned our rooms every Saturday rotating cleaning the bathroom each Sat. Only if we finished dinner we could have a snack before bed at 9:30. Our snack was 1 scoop of ice cream or 2 cookies period. We ate breakfast before school, Mom gave each of us $1. For lunch, dinner at 6pm, period! Outside after homework, in when street lights came on. We loved playing outside! Yes ,we built forts we lived next to field. We built tree houses, dug underground forts, rode bikes, big wheels, banana seat a ape hanger handle bars on mine. Brothers built bmx dirt tracks with jumps, their handle bars some straight across, foot pegs for their friends. Boy our skate boards, the wheels hit a pebble.. you went down! Lol Gosh, those were the best days of my life! My mom made all of our bday cakes, they were awesome! I had a couple with a doll in middle of cake , cake was her gown and designed with the frosting. ❤ Thank you for your video, it brought back some great memories.
Same here. Also, for some odd reason, kids now (teenagers) aren't expected to get jobs so they are sitting around playing video games. I wonder if they have any chores.
Half of men and a third of women smoked in the 50s, appetite suppressant.
They didn’t have corn chips to grab, so they lit a cigarette. I’m sure a lot of people back in the 50s & 60s went to bed hungry.
I was born in 1959,this video brought back alot of great memories and it all makes so much sense!
I was born in 1953......sure do miss those years..😢.
I spend about 2 hours cleaning my apartment every day, I cook all my meals from scratch at home and this keeps me pretty fit.
Wish it was still like these days…❤
Did anyone else notice the shoes the woman had on while gardening? Or beating the dust out of the rug while laundry hung on the line?
Yes two photos of women cleaning their rugs with clean cloths right there 🫣
I used to love coming home and smelling bread baking in the oven
I'm an Eastern European born in 1995, and I'm quite astonished every time I hear about modern American eating habits, tbh. Surely, we do eat some snacks and sweets from time to time too, but almost everyone I know eats homecooked food most of the time, and treats fruit as dessert. I've lived in three countries already, and also hardly know anyone who has a family member who stays at home as a homekeeper and provides the whole family with the food. And some of us still do the canned vegetables and fruits preserves, not to mention our parents and grandparents 😅
So yeah, a lot of cultural differences
27 minutes of something that "Back To The Future " explained in 30 seconds:
Marty: All right, just give me a Pepsi 'Free'.
Coffee bar manager: If you want a Pepsi, pal, you've gonna to pay for it!
Marty: Look, just give me something without any sugar in it, okay.
Coffee bar manager: Here, coffee without any sugar
The Government used to supplement their bread with iodine before 1970. That is also why their health was much better.
This was still true in my home in the 80s as a kid growing up. No snacking. No refills. Small portions for lunch dinner.
We had soda and sweets on holidays and birthdays.
A few weeks ago i was at a restaurant and i decided to order off the senior menue.
When it came, i realized that its smaller portion reminded me of how food came served in the 50s.
I did this at IHOP and was pleasantly surprised at the difference.
@kierra3599I hop? Talk about high carb and sugar bomb !!
That’s a great idea - I’m 80 and frequently eat out - I can seldom get thru an entire serve and I live in Australis where portion sizes are much smaller than in America
🏅 THIS PROGRAM DESERVES A MEDAL !!! GREAT INFO FOR THESE TIMES WE ARE IN TODAY ! WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT MORE OF THESE WAYS FROM THE PAST IN OUR PRESENT DAYS AS WE MOVE INTO THE FUTURE. IT MIGHT TAKE SOME EXTRA TIME FROM OUR DAY BUT ALSO IT WOUJD SAVE LOTS OF FINANCIAL EXPENSE & PREVENT A VARIETY OF HEALTH ISSUES AS A RESULT. EXCELLENT FACTS & FOOTAGE. Thank you !!👍
Great video! So much of it is common sense we’ve all forgotten 👍🏼 my husband might be mad I’m not letting him go back for seconds 😝
I'm so happy to say that my parents gave me a 1950s upbringing in the early 2000s :-) I played outside 24/7 and even though I'm sad about all the freckles I have now I am so lucky for that upbringing and we had home cooked food everyday and we were so poor we couldn't have too much food
I do not have a robo-vac or a dishwasher.
Unless I get too old to do these tasks, I never want them.
I do have a washer and dryer.
I still hang my clothes outside as often as possible, even in winter.
Husband has a huge garden and we pressure can as much as possible for winter.
Husband still maintains the property by himself.
We heat with firewood we process.
I refuse to have most seed oils in my house.
Lard, tallow and real butter are what we use.
Eating from basic ingredients is best.
Now, though, you have to watch for “enriched” flours, rice, etc.
The vitamins and minerals used for the enrichment processes are the cheapest available and inferior.
The human body has trouble processing the inferior enrichment.
Soils used to grow food is very depleted of minerals.
This is why there is a huge uptick of thyroid issues.
This is also why there are so many supplements available.
We are only in our 60s.
Raised 8 children in this lifestyle.
Our grandkids will be living like The Jetsons.
Sad.
Sometimes progress isn’t always the best thing.
Very similar over here.
This is very similar to the french diet: 3 proper meals, no snacking. Treats in small pieces or on occasion. No dieting, everything is allowed but in moderation. No excessive workouts instead: Walking and using the stairs.
As food prices increase, people are no longer able to afford "fast" food. They are slowly returning to cooking more meals at home. I know I am. I haven't eaten out anywhere for about 10 years.
We haven't either.I've gotten to the point that I don't trust.anyone other than me to make our food.
Chinese food is my one exception, and about 4 times per year. I cook my own food, and once in awhile will dress up a frozen pizza. Two meals per day is usually more than enough for me, and sometimes not even that. Lunch or dinner, and maybe a couple of tablespoons of hummus or cottage cheese if I need a quick snack. Not thin yet, and losing weight is difficult over 60, but no need to pile on pounds.
Overeating would be too expesive for me. The more you eat, the higher your grocerie bill.
There were a lot of heavy smokers, though.
Appetite suppressant with those Cigs
@TheInvisibleOne1026 That is true. Smoking also speeds up the catabolic rate. It is not healthy to put all those toxins into your body, though.
I grew up in the late '50s and late '60s. A candy bar or chips were very rare and a special treat. We didn't snack between meals. We ate 3 meals a day. Eating out was a rare treat. I'll bet we went to a fast food place maybe once every 2 to 3 months. We did eat crappy cereal with milk fairly often. As kids we were very active. We were always riding bikes or being active in other ways. Very few of my friends were over wright. It was a rare thing. We got only 3 channels on the TV and as a kid I wasn't that interested in watching it. No video games, Internet or social media - Thank God!
Much of this video brought back memories. Most of the pictures of the kitchens were in the more expensive homes. As a teen in the 1950s my mother would have given just about anything for one of them. My dad worked in a shoe factory trimming the edges of shoe soles. He stood at a single machine for eight hours with a thirty minute lunch break five days a week. My mother packed his lunch in a box with a thermos. I thought it cute that when referring to the darkened bedrooms, you showed a picture from the movie Little Women where Elizabeth Taylor slept with a clothes pin on her nose. Thank you for this interesting video.
I was born in 1950. I remember it very well. The answer is no junk in food. We ate real food with little or NO junk added to it. We didn't have computers and our TV only came on after supper. We were outside all day playing or going to school. By the time the early 60's, we got jobs. We didn't sit on our butts. We worked, we played, we did things with our neighbors, friends, and family. THAT is what happened. We grew gardens in the summer and farm families butchered their own meat. We had deserts, however, it had no junk in it. It was not full of additives. THAT is what happened. We had between meals snack, but they were homemade cookies or fruit, or popcorn. We didn't have snacks full of artificial crap that was worthless to the body. My generation is one of the healthiest generations that ever lived. We had the measles, mumps, chicken pox. We only had small pox vaccinations, that was it. We were not pumped full of "shots" from the Dr. from birth on. We were very very rarely sick. We played outside in summer , winter, spring and fall. We lived. We didn't live in computerized game worlds. We played, made up our own games. Heck, our entire neighborhood of about 25 kids put on our own circus one summer and charged our parents a nickel to attend, pooled the money at the end and went to the candy store. All of us divided the candy. We had snacks but they were healthy snacks not full of crap like now. Grocery stores had REAL food, not aisles of just worthless junk.
THAT WAS LIFE!!!
The biggest factor is mental health. People are reporting being lonelier and more unhappy than ever before. Lots of emptiness and emotional eating going on.
Probably because nobody ever reported it before. You were taught to repress your feelings and not discuss such private matters in public.
1:51 great point
Eating seasonally is very fun and exciting because it's special when it comes around that time of year like an old friend
Portion size is about 85 to 90 percent of it
I think this is excellent but, please know that the practices mentioned here were also in place in the 1960s and, for at least the first five years of the 1970s (and maybe longer). It all had to do with women returning to work and if you had a traditional two parent family. So I had a stay at home mom in the 70s and it was like what is described here and we waited for dad for dinner. Also, I still remember being taught not to call any friends between 5 and 7 pm as they may be having dinner. I also remember being told not to call anyone's home past 9 pm. Those were good practices-it is freaky when a UPS driver knocks on the door at 9:30.
It’s no secret. They walked or biked WAY more than we do. They did more manual labor intensive jobs than we do. They didn’t have nearly as much couch time, screen time, or desk time as we do. Office/cubicle time wasn’t as common. Their food wasn’t processed. Their plate proportions weren’t supersized. They didn’t drink soda in place of water. And they didn’t spend, or maybe couldn’t, as much money on food. People ate way more fruit and vegetables than today. So basically they had better nutrition and eating habits and a more active lifestyle are the reasons.
People also went for a walk in the evening. They were also outside in the sunshine with lots of essential Vitamin D.
My grandmother said women were happily living like that, she personally loved it. She said she doesn’t understand how it got to where it is today, all of her friends were happy too and they all got to see their friends more than we do today.
We used to walk to our friends' house. Mom never drove us to friends.
She was lucky…..not all women were……
Everyone likes their best times their youth. That’s all that is. Cmon.
Oh my gosh the point about stairs in the office buildings
They smoked a lot more too , which kept them from eating.
Popcorn was never made in a “heavy pot”. It was thin tin or aluminum so it could get screaming hot. Remember Jiffy Pop popcorn? That was considered high end. Liquid calories are the worst. Especially High fructose corn syrup.
HFCS wasn't put in sodas, until mid 70s
@49jubileeI thought it was 80's the HFCS😢
My big brother had appendicitis at nine and would have died without surgery. My little sister was hospitalized for bleeding in the intestines. She had a kindergarten classmate who died of leukemia. My grandmother had diabetes. My rural cousin underwent surgery for serious peritonitis. My little brother was born almost blind. What do you mean, everybody was healthy? And we were not considered an unlucky family.
I was born in 1992 but my grandmother raised me. She cooked EVERYTHING. We lived in a very small rural town so there was no fast food or convenience all that much lol. She had an occasional Pepsi and very rarely did she allow us to have junk food. 99% of the time we ate meat, rice, and vegetables…and we had fruit trees in the yard. Snacking wasn’t a thing and I don’t recall ever eating after 6pm. I try to hold on to those ways to keep myself healthy.
Your Grandma didn't work, correct? That is the difference. Kids are growing up on hot pockets and Wendy's because mom is too tired and/or is raising kids on her own (it is okay now to have kids outside of marriage-it was not 70s and earlier). With women home, they also knew what was being taught at school and whether their kid was changing genders, doing drugs, etc.
Yeah this is very true when placed on a diet my doctor was amazed at my weight loss, I said it's the way I ate as a kid and this was food and portions also the juice was delivered in glass bottles always good and cold great days 😊
One of the things that a lot of people forget about is how much more physical activity people did at work. Manual labor was a job that paid enough to support a family and was considered a long term option for most people. Both of my grandfathers were coal miners after they came home from WW2. They never had weight problems like I have now
7-up came out at 7oz.
Now my town has dozens of stores that sell 2Liter 7 ups
Excellent
I’m trying to do lawn by myself as a wife finally able to take care of the home. Dethatching takes a lot of work but supposed to get lawn healthy. I’m growing fruit and trying to can and can pickles but our basement needs help getting to be right humidity so we need a humidifier. Was making goods by hand but now trying to be in ketosis to lose weight. I have to eat soooo much butter just to get in healthy state of ketosis to lose weight. They really knew how to do it better back then. I’m hoping we will learn someday
Thank you for sharing❤❤❤❤
Excellent. Thank you. ❤
Our small juice glasses were those that came as a bonus in oatmeal. I actually have a few of those glasses and my millennial daughter grew up drinking juice from the small juice glasses.
I saved the small glass jars from dried beef!
@countryfrau8328 OMG! I just purchased a small 5 oz jar of Kraft Old English spread last week. A man had asked me the week before if I knew what Pimento Cheese in a glass jar was and of course I did! We could not find it in the Safeway store, but I saw the Old English at Walmart and wanted to see if it was close to what I remembered from the late 60s and through the 70s when my parents had it with crackers for parties. And the glasses were call juice glasses in our house. One and done for each kid when juice was served. Fruit juice is very high in calories and natural sugar, so I usually have tomato juice or V8.
Many of the changes was due to women having to work to help support the family as our financial situations changed.
As a young child until adolescence I was riding a bicycle every where I went and that could be many kilometres a day
Use the salad plate for all meals
13:57 ❤❤❤
Smoking was good ❤
And food we bought didn't have all kinds of chemicals in it. Bread use to mold not anymore.
Bs .it had insecticide that has been banned
This is Bs .those remembering are full of it and lie
It’s because they didn’t have all the poison laden corporation food we have today.
Crazy, my son’s school has 2 snack times. Why?
My great grandmothers were morbidly obese actually, but I think that was an emotional response to growing up in extreme poverty and then later having an abundance of food. (Immigrants who grew up in the Great Depression) We never shamed them or made them feel bad about being heavy in a family of thin people though. They went through stuff the rest of us could never fully understand.
Even AI remembers a simpler time.
So, what was the average life expansivity for men and women in the 1950's ?
A better time! ..😊
The title is very misleading. “Why people were healthy in the 50’s”: bro that was back when doctors smoked cigarettes while checking your blood pressure. Healthy my ass.
Yes! Doing without was certainly something that was practiced back then but is absolutely not a thing today
The health impacts of drinking alcohol was not as well known. A lot of households had nightly cocktails. That along with smoking drive heart attack rates
My ex father in law was a army man then a deep sea welder. I met him in 99. He was definitely old school.
God bring us back to simpler time Amen
What was that brown sweet bread called.
The missing element here is discipline. It was structure and discipline and families made it complete. I was brought up in the 50s and 60s and these habits I retain to this day. It was the most valuable thing my parents gave me. Cooking for just myself. NEVER drinking pop. Very few snacks. My phone is for emergencies. I still hang the clothes to dry, ride my bike, etc. and I'll be 70. Kids today long for this kind of routine.
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