I know I ate better as a kid because my Mom had dinner on the table at 5:00 and
everyone had to be seated. You had to eat what was put on the table or go
hungry. After dinner I was out the door to play in the street with my friends
until dark. Then it was time for a bath and go to bed. On Friday evening I
could watch TV with my Dad, Mom and sisters, but I had to be up at 8:00 AM on
Sat. to clean my room. I weigh the same now as I did in high school, but now I
take vitamins.
Mary Gattone
GSDCA member since 1978
AKC Breeder of Merit
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From: Lew <lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: showgsd-l <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Jun 29, 2015 9:58 pm
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Who eats better now?
OK, I ate a lot when I was a teen, but mostly good food. The other difference
was we didn't sit in our bedrooms eating chips and watching TV or playing video
games.
I didn't site the increase in obesity which is the biggy.
We played outside after school, like street ball...baseball, football, etc.
Then after dinner and homework we went back outside until bedtime. Played such
games as hide and go seek which usually resulted in chasing the young girls
around the neighborhood.
Evan,
Your diet sounded much like a farm diet...which was usually burned off working
in the fields or around the farm. One of my Grandfathers ate a lot of fat and
had a heart attack and died before I was born. BTW, he was a skinny guy but
his veins must have clogged up.
My high school class was about 265 seniors and I only remember one being
overweight. Now it seems normal or slender is the exception.
On 6/29/2015 6:19 PM, Evan Ginsburg (Redacted sender elg440@xxxxxxx for
DMARC) wrote:
It is my understanding that nutrition is actually poorer now than it has been
for 50 years. The year I graduated from HS, 1967 was interesting in two ways.
Peak of SAT scores and milk consumption, both went down ever since.
I graduated from high school in 1959. I lived in the mid-West. A normal
breakfast was first a mess of bacon. Then eggs dropped in the bacon fat to fry,
and finally toast toasted in what remained of the fat, and soaking up the bacon
grease.
I used to eat a normal dinner, meat loaf, pork chops, chicken and muffins,
and often more bacon or other fatty foods. Sometimes steak, and if so, always
with potatoes fried in Crisco.
Every night right after dinner, my buddy Jerry would pick me up in his
dad's blue 1948 Plymouth and we would go to Big Boys where they would bring me
two Big Boys, (with the secret sauce), two orders of onion rings, and two
cokes. That was only on the week nights. On the weekends, I was able to eat
all I wanted. McDonalds was just getting started, and I worked there. We could
eat all we wanted for free, so for lunch on Saturdays I would have 10 patties
of meat on a bun and a milk shake, with four orders of fries.
I graduated at 6ft. 90lbs.
Since then I have shrunk two inches and gained 50 pounds, and lived to be
73.
I guess nutrition isn't everything.
Evan
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Lew Wurdeman
Mordor German Shepherds
www.mordorgermanshepherds.com
Breeding German Shepherd Dogs
since 1973
