1972 - At the Beach - Where are all the fat people?
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Crazy how quickly society has gone to shit.
And not 1 person with pink hair, how absurd.
Pink speedos here though
Id prefer a pink speedo cis man to a crazy topless pink haired genderless lunatic 🤷🏼♀️
Not something I'd do myself, but the confidence it would take a straight man to wear pink speedos should be respected.
Can guarantee he’s smuggling a fox squirrel on the other side of that thing.!
Their were no fat people to speak of in that time...
I had a graduating class of about 150,none were fat by today standards. A couple kids were a little overweight,but none outright fat like today. older people,some were fat,but not that common. Most people in our area had physical jobs miners,logger farmer....... No such thing as a 44 oz big gulp.
Don't blame the big gulp, it's lack of physical activity. I drink a big gulp everyday and weigh 185 pounds. I also do Jiu Jitsu 3 times a week like clockwork.
There is a guy I train with who lost 160 pounds in a year and a half just training BJJ with some light weight training.
I initially weighed around 215......actually went down to 175 at one point which is lighter than I want to be and I actually had to gain weight to get back to 185 which is perfect for me.
People just need to get off their asses and break a sweat a few times a week, doesn't even need to be extreme....go walk a couple of miles every other day.
I think you're correct. Lack of physical activity. Too much time in front of a computer/phone/TV.
I drink an energy drink every day, and probably at least a liter of cola. And sit on a computer at least 8-12 hours a day.
I have a small lunch and a moderate dinner. Sometimes a snack at midnight like salsa or guac.
165lbs / 6 ft
You can do low activity and still have sugar drinks, as long as you're not a piggy with everything else too.
Exactly right! Also, the population's diets have gone to crap, too. Family's used to eat more home-cooked meals, but now with the mom and dad both working, take-out and restaurants have become more popular destinations.
It's definitely a combo of exercise, diet and media brainwashing.
It's much more than just that... Yes, that quantity of sugar is toxic, but there's more to it.
Sugars swapped with sweeteners
Replacing good fats with seed oils (butter -> margarine, etc)
Increased exposure to chemicals; cleaners, pesticides, herbicides, etc.
Decreased physical activity (because that does play a role)
All these things (and likely more) each play a role in the shift from how society looked back then to today.
90s I was the fat chubby kid through middle school, 165 in 8th grade. Almost passed out at first 7th grade football game and my coach made fun of me for years which motivated me. In high school I didn't know it was fasting but I fasted all day then went to football practice, only ate 1 meal a day mostly healthy stuff. I stayed 165 all through high school and college. I still occasionally fast or keto diet. Yes fat shaming worked for me.
Studies show fat shaming works for almost everyone. Other than a small percentage of otherwise undesirables.
Are you an idiot? The fuck? Of course there were obese people then. For fucks sake.
The difference is "body positivity", they used to be ashamed, and so they didn't go to the beach (often). But they were there.
As far as this kind of sun-worship goes, it frequently (could even go so far as to say, "usually") takes decades for overexposure to develop into skin cancer. People didn't really expose themselves like this on beaches until the latter-half of the 20th century, and, as we all know, young people are invincible and immune to any sort of disease or other bad things (/sarcasm). Many of the people in this photo are now in dermatology offices.
In my case, it took about 40 years for cancers to start developing after I was overexposed in my youth. I didn't go shirtless after I was about 20 or so, so I know when the damage was done -- most of my worst burns were when I was less than five years old.
True. I am 40 now and the sun damage is really doing weird shit lol.
My forearms and upper back/neck look like discolored Swiss cheese from all the dozens of treatments...
At least you're alive. Genetics are a hell of a drug. My dad spent his entire youth outside shirtless and shoeless and he died in his 70s from kidney issues, no cancers ever.
Hopefully you stay healthy and with us :)
Thank you! :)
There was no sunscreen until I was an adult and I'm an ultra pale redhead (before white) who burned in minutes in the sun. I avoided the sun as much as possible and now have all kinds of sun damage issues and one spot that was pre-cancerous that was removed by the dermatologist.
And, yeah, at this time we used to see plenty of fat and even hugely obese people. That includes little kids. My brother, who died young of a stroke, was one of them.
Maybe at least some of this obesity epidemic is propaganda to get you to avoid food. I think it's a bit fishy that the latest diet fad is fasting. Not against fasting, just questioning the timing.
The cause of most skin cancers are in places not usually exposed to sun and is caused by florescent lights.. those long tubes all offices and shops had. Now led lights are bad too
Unless you're talking about the fluorescent lights used in tanning beds, they're safe: https://www.valleyheating.com/blog/2019/june/do-fluorescent-lights-actually-cause-health-prob/
No I read it was the florescent lights in offices causing skin cancers
The sunglasses thing made me do a double take. What's up with that?
Bring back the old yellow sun!
It was better. I miss it.
Where are the face masks?
Thanks for the quick blast of nostalgia, those were the days
My wife and I are both overweight and we love the beach. This a Q research board, not FPH. I doubt you're all specimens.
If you took this personally, perhaps it's time for some lifestyle changes. Nothing in this thread is fph.
But....
A guilty conscience needs no accusers.
I was sure when I posted this, most people view this as a problem with the food supply.
Not generation vs generation.
Correct. It's one more proof.
Intermittent fasting bro, I'm not a small person by any means, but fasting can be one of the best things you can do for your health
That's not our point.
No.
It's Copacabana Beach, you got it.
Lol no cell phone handy 😅
Looks like Port Fourchon on any typical spring break day to me..(70s) I miss that oil soaked sand, surfing the jetties when the big boats floated by...
Then there was Grand Isle, 7 miles of fun and sun, The Riviera of the Louisiana Gulf Coast, a bit more sophisticated but wild none the less.
Louisiana has her precious gemstones.
Anyhoo, I'm glad to see you finding your way back to the board. :-)
My Cajun Cousin.
Thanks my Cajun Cousin 🥰