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Originally Posted by alexbrown64
When you look at 70's films.. everyone was slim. Fast food has put an end to that. Luckily, not so bad in Australia.. but maybe we will head that way.
Luckily they have some pretty big cars over there.
Cheers,
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Funnily enough, the body worship thing that helped keep people slim and trim for the last 60 yrs or so started pretty much after WW2. There were lots of very fit, muscular, 6packer ex marines. soldiers, sailors airmen etc fit from surviving the war and who needed distraction. Along came gyms and the fitness industry.
Bring in a beach culture; Hollywood romanticising and stereotyping the ideal male, shorty and bikini swimsuits, an insistence by the youth and counter culture of the day for a freer society, and add in drugs and what do we have now. More and more indolence etc, cheap US food loaded with sugar and carbs, non taxing work etc and the arse blossoms, the gut drops and swings (used 2b the arse doing this) and the mouth is never empty. Add carbs from huge amts of beer people drink and the disaster for early death recipe is alive and well.
I was thinking about how much time at work is taken up eating or drinking in US workplaces. And, how much can these grossly obese people achieve in a work day? Some of them struggle to walk and breathe just moving down the street.
Australia, watch out. The problem is coming this way, no doubt, just as everything US is followed by us. The evidence is here already and if u need a reality check, take an eyes open walk through your local shopping centre and pub..
Keep your kids slim and trim and off the sugar and reduce the carbs now!! The arse and gut won't sag or swing if they get up and move and do things. Create and maintain an healthy food culture and start them on it now. Go hungry once in a while: might help to appreciate food more.
And, oh my goodness, I am not even a fitness freak but I have to say something because it is actually very disturbing to see such rampant un-health created by gluttony and indolence and that affects very young people, even kids.