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hinfarm
Posted 3/18/2024 08:17 (#10669694)
Subject: Dinner time 1950



Amherst WI
Often when you look at old pictures from the mid past century you don't see many/any fat people.

There have been many posts about the low carb diet, and it is working for many.

What I am trying to correlate is why was a population that ate meat and potatoes and bread with pie for dessert 3x a day skinny compared to now with a population with the majority obese?

Can we blame that on using seed oils in just about everything? Something to do with modern grains? Preservatives in everything? Pesticide contamination?

Back then these people didn't count carbs to stay fit. Every single one of them wasn't splitting wood by hand to keep a fire going and hand milking 12 cows a day.

Even people in the large cities working in offices were fit, but they ate pancakes, eggs and bacon for breakfast, probably had a ham sandwich from lunch with some potato salad and then had roast beef potatoes, carrots, onions and a blueberry pie for dessert and a big old glass of whole milk. Basically, carbohydrate city, but they were thin. So why is that?
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