Mon, May-16-11, 10:43
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Senior Member
Posts: 322
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Plan: IF/VLC
Stats: 258/219/145
BF:
Progress: 35%
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Originally Posted by howlovely
My problem is that it does not seem like the diet has really changed that much in the past 15 years. I mean, in South Texas there is still the big soft drinks, fast food, and Tex-mex. The kids are still into school sports. Basically, the diet now at least SEEMS like it is the same as it was 15 years ago. Yet 15 years ago there were not groups of fat teenage girls everywhere. Now they are common. At a dance recital 15 years ago, all the dancers would have been thin.
Or am I wrong? Has the diet changed in some way that I am simply not seeing?
BTW, I think this discussion is crucial. These poor girls. I just cannot imagine being a teenage girl and obese. There is no way that is pleasant.
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I dunno. I grew up in the midwest and grew up on 1 meat + 1 starch + 1 vegetable + 1 bread for each meal, and then we'd settle on the couch with Jell-O pudding layered with Cool Whip in Tupperware parfait dishes to watch The Cosby Show. Things like ice cream were expensive and so we didn't have that outside of birthday parties; we certainly didn't have 40-foot linear sections of the grocery store dedicated to just frozen novelties. I remember that my parents drank Coke and Pepsi like it was going out of style, but we were only allowed to have some once in a great while - I had friends whose parents let them split a Coke each night at dinner and I thought that those kids were like, the luckiest kids in the world and that their parents must have been pretty rich, too. :P We made no-bake cookies and cake-mix cakes with homemade make-shift frosting made out of margarine and powdered sugar when we wanted something sweet. I don't remember having boxes of crackers around to snack on - I remember mom bought them around holidays to lay out with sliced cheeses. Chips were strictly a lunch side-dish. I remember my (thin) friends and I would pour sugar into plastic bags, mix in a bit of the powder from a kool-aid packet, rip off a corner and just eat pure sugar all day.
I think we were a pretty typical family. My parents were thin people until the late 80s. My maternal grandmother was the fattest person I knew when I was a kid and looking back at photos of her, I don't even think she ever broke 200 pounds - and she's like 5 ft. 6!
So yah, it's like something fundamental has changed.
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