Put down the burger and back away ma’am

[Axxowiz]

I think you’re getting to where I personally think the problem is. I’m assuming when you were a kid, there were a McDonald’s in every town/city just like they are now, as well as soda’s and junk food. Some of us were lucky enough to have a mother at home that didn’t let us eat that crap or more or much less bring it home to eat from work

Your generation also enjoy going outside riding bicycles things like obesity and children probably wasn’t even an issue. I’m a millennial and obese and children was still rare. Now it’s a thing.

[Gaius]

To whatever degree obesity bothers me,
it bothers me more when people to blame “our healthcare problems”
on corporations and a lack of socialism.

But yeah my family and I grew up riding bikes and playing bsaeball etc.(until we lived in farm country.)

[altair1013]

@Toll_Collector

@altair1013

I’m 5’8,‘’ 163 lbs. and 66 years old. I raised three daughters and have 5 grand children. Yesterday at the gym I did three sets of 20 reps on the ab machine at 345 lbs. I can also do 30 chin-ups. I end my work out by beating the heavy bag like Mike Tyson. If it’s important enough, anyone can stay fit.

In my youth I was always in top physical condition. In 11th grade I could bench press almost 400 pounds once on that machine that you move the pins. Not free weights. But if you can do 30 chin-ups, you’re my hero. Even though I think you’re short.

Yeah, but most 6ft. tall men my age are shuffling around in slow motion and couldn’t touch me. Chesty Puller was 5’6. Audie Murphy was 5’5’‘ Two of the badest badasses ever to put on an American uniform.

I’m not putting myself anywhere near that category.. But there’s a lot of bad ass men who aren’t so tall.

Oh and the 400 pounds is impressive as hell. I could never come close to that.

[Striker840]

@SixFoot

Nothing has changed in the last 40 years except the food. Today’s kids sitting around on the tablet are yesteryear’s kids turning into couch potatoes in front of the TV.

I don’t know about the rest of y’all but when I was a kid the only time I watched TV was in the winter. I was born in '66 and between say 5-14 I would be outside playing with kids in the neighborhood or swimming at the pool. When I hit 14 I got the first of 4 paper routes and when I hit 16 I got my first job. Also, growing up my Saturday mornings was spent at the bowling alley, and when I moved up to the “senior” level I bowled in the city traveling league as well. I also was working at Godfathers Pizza as a cook/delivery driver. When I went to boot I weighed 160 and after around 170, but as many have said, most kids were thinner back then. My guess is the explosion of fast food, processed foods, GMO foods, and parents that use the screen as a babysitter.