Round my mother’s house last week. Found my grandads old war memorabilia, rationing books, medals, etc. Anyone ever tried a ‘ wartime ration’ diet to lose weight? Obviously no processed or ‘ quick and easy’ foods, like today. Or things filled with salt and sugar. No sugary fruit squash drinks. Just your weekly allowance of bread, sugar, milk sort of thing. I mean. (I’ll look into it properly).No body was fat in the forty and fifty’s, according to my parents, or not many, were. Deffo nowhere near as many as today! A good thing?
They ate loads of bad stuff lard, fat and salt ect. The main difference was there activities levels they had no cars, no TVs, they did the washing by hand, they worked 15 hour days doing manual work and they grew there own veg
People back then were far more active....if you look at historical pictures of towns there were very few office blocks and far fewer cars on the road. Personally I also think supermarkets have been detrimental to food quality....to enable shelf live and long supply chains many foods are injected with all sorts of anti mould agents and other crap. I say this as pictures of the U.K. Up until the late 70's show very few obese people, a fair while after rationing, and just in the cusp of super markets. If you are doing rationing, where are you keeping the community pig?! Oh, and central heating....fat people don't live in cold houses...another huge contributor that gained momentum in the late 70's.
I realise the lards and animal fat, dripping, tripe thing, but it’s obvious that, as from lessons learned from others, I wouldn’t eat that, anyway.
totally agree with the super market thing! I’m a self employed gardener, so very active. Also, I don’t eat red meat, just chicken and fish, ocassionally. The community pig will be safe in the station.
My Nan her mum my mum et all those things all their lives all lived in to their nineties ,mum still alive . It’s what you do in your younger life that sets you up . It’s not always what you eat ,it’s what sort of metabolism you have ,how you eat and what genes you have . If something is scaring you into what your eating you’ve probably been over weight or are . Live for today tomorrow might not arrive . This is the proverbial you not you you.
Its always a pleasure watching period dramas from the 50s and 60s when many of the characters are correctly distinctly skinny compared with today. Otoh my grandfather died with diabetes after gorging on sugar since rationing stopped...
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My gran taught people how to cook on rashons during the war. She worked for the government locally and through her work with the mothers union got into showing people how to make do and mend and feed themselves on a ration. I wish I’d taken more notice of what she told me now, I could write about it!
I’m not anywhere near overweight. I’m just wondering what it would be like. Yes, many of the elder generation are in their 90’s, like you quite rightly say. Wife’s grandad is 93 this year, and is still surprisingly healthy, considering.
This ‘overweight’ chart thing that people like to keep with ... bmi thing? That’s a load of tosh,too, as when I was Scaffolding, I was just under 15 stone. I’m 5’8”. No fat, just muscle from lifting and climbing ladders all day.A friend of mine is the same height and worked as a warehouse manager. He was around the same weight but Jesus, he was rotund! Sitting on your arse all day is defiantly the killer...
