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- Jan 6, 2019
Even in the 70s most people, and certainly kids were much slimmer than now
Oh yes, definitely. At risk of going off on ‘when I were a lass’ rant, we genuinely did walk everywhere, junk food didn’t exist when I was a kid, I remember when McDonald’s opened in our town and it was like something rare and exotic. We did t have that much money, we got a 10p mix on a Friday on the way home from school and that was it, unless it was kids parties and even that was homemade cake and crisps rather than ultra processed stuff. Lifestyles have changed hugely. We didn’t drink pop, and we didn’t eat junk - everything was cooked from scratch. There were no fat kids in my class - the ones we thought were fat then would be classed as normal now. Vanity sizing is a thing too - I have clothes from the seventies that are an entirely different shape to modern stuff and the sizing is so different.
obesity on the 600lb level absolutely yes. Just plain old BMi 30 ish? no I don’t think it does. We live in a society where food is cheap, plentiful and ever available. We are chained to our jobs in a way we weren’t before. It only takes an extra excess few dozen calories a day to become obese in a year or so. Many women when pregnant pack weight on and it takes a while to lose. Menopause and middle age can alter fat distribution.Obesity requires severe mental illness to achieve.
Just being overweight or in the regular obese category isn’t a severe mental illness - it’s a depressing indictment of how our society is unhealthy as fuck.
Getting to the size of amberlynn is mental illness territory, as is being a fat advocate who ignores all scientific and medical advice