And I know I’ll get loads of bashing but I’m not judging- myself and all my family may well be included in this observation
The day before I’d been watching a documentary about the 40s and was struck by how slim the vast majority of people were. We got chatting as a group and I remembered there was only one child at school who was considered to be overweight (this is the 80s) so I got a photo out and realised by today’s standard he wouldn’t stand out at all.
Then yesterday walking around town I started actually noticing and it struck me that only about 1 in 10 people if that would be classed as properly slim and how normalised carrying extra weight is. Many people who would have been maybe a size 12 so ‘slim’ are actually carrying so much more body fat than our ancestors.
Once I looked it was striking.
No blame on anyone- society makes it almost impossible to maintain a lower weight unless you have iron will with all the food availability and snacking culture and calorie laden drinks and meals.
And we definitely have reset in our heads what is slim and what is ‘normal’.
How on earth do we reverse this is a society or is it just going to rise exponentially?
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Shocked yesterday at just how many people are overweight?
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Whatevskev · 29/09/2019 08:39
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