why are people that were born in the 50's/60's/early 70's so unhealthy?

[TurdBerglar]

has anyone else noticed this? is it just because they're getting older? it seems that their parents(our grandparents?) and their kids are much healthier than they are. they seem to be the generation that is most cancer ridden and just plain old fat, sedentary, very angry and stressed.

nearly everyone I know that was born through the 80's and onward is active in some way. they go to the gym or do some sort of recreational activity or sport. it seems like all that earlier generation did was hang out and get shitfaced when they were younger. whenever I hear them telling stories of their younger days it seems so amazingly trashy and yet they're so proud of it. what the fuck was going on then?

[MC Moot]

The advent of industrialization, automation, capitalism and mass consumerism…

[Guy Incognito]

i thought all the kids were now supposed to be fat and full of shit and dont get any exercise cos they all on computers and xboxes and shit.

[TurdBerglar]

i thought all the kids were now supposed to be fat and full of shit and dont get any exercise cos they all on computers and xboxes and shit.

maybe for the kids born in the 90's who have parents that are content to allow their kids to stay in the house because it makes them feel more secure that their kids aren't outside getting abducted.

[TurdBerglar]

The advent of industrialization, automation, capitalism and mass consumerism…

so... they were the first generation to have it easy and took advantage of the opportunity to be sleazy and be able to get away with it?

[MC Moot]

so... they were the first generation to have it easy and took advantage of the opportunity to be sleazy and be able to get away with it?

It was the sociological result of the hardships suffered during the great depression and the restrictions and rationing policy’s the populace endured during WWII...after the war the factory’s for armaments were revamped and switched to producing consumer goods in mass...basically it started a free for all of indulgence, luxury and gluttony...

[Dorothy Wood]

I agree with Moot. Advertising convinced people that they needed to eat junk, and then it just kept ramping up so people would eat more junk and then actually feel proud of it, like it's a constitutional right to eat garbage.

My mom works with the elderly, but there are younger people on disability living in the place too. They're wards of the state because they can't work. One lady is there because she is sick from diabetes, had part of her leg amputated and is still quite overweight because she still eats fast food and drinks sugary drinks all day long while sitting in front of a computer playing word games. And obviously something is going on in her mind that causes her to be self-destructive, but it's kinda crazy that all these problems she has are because she won't restrict her own diet or attempt to exercise. She'd rather just die in a nursing home I guess...but she's only like 50.


Everyone I know is pretty active, and all the people I know who used to be quite heavy have done something about it to save their own lives. I'm not perfect and people I hang out with are good eaters though. I mean it's the American way to indulge in food and drink, it's just weird that people would be so dedicated to eating crap when there are so many other delicious foods to overeat.

[Guy Incognito]

Isnt this maybe that people now in their thirties are just at stage of life that they want to be healthier and the older people tried all that 10/20/30 years ago?

I know had a good period of trying to keep fit a few years ago. I'm nearly 40 now and i dont consider to be unhealthy yet not uber healthy either. I dont smoke anymore but other than that i dont do much to keep mega fit. I have two young kids, running around after them just about does it.

[Waus]

A lot of the slightly older people that I know who are sort of going to shit were people who held onto "dinner" as a family tradition. I'm not critiquing that at all - but their kids grew up and went to college etc. and suddenly their main reason for cooking at home was gone (and there's no necessity, really, other than financially). They just started eating out more and more, and while that can be okay for you if you pick and choose, generally speaking they ate more and more with less and less redeeming nutritional value.

[Documad]

You folks are going to be just as unhealthy as a group than we are. Maybe even worse.

[Waus]

You folks are going to be just as unhealthy as a group than we are. Maybe even worse.

Yeah, it's a good thing we'll have a couple more decades of medical progress to keep us on tubes and pumps for extra years.

[TurdBerglar]

You folks are going to be just as unhealthy as a group than we are. Maybe even worse.

I don't know. it seems my generation does a ton less drugs and drinking and eats better compared to my parents generation when they were the same age.

[Waus]

I don't know. it seems my generation does a ton less drugs and drinking and eats better compared to my parents generation when they were the same age.

This feels like the sort of thing I would want to actually see some numbers on - no one seems to agree.

[ericlee]

I was born in 72 and I'm healthy. I can run 3 miles in 17.2 minutes, not a bone in me aches, I've been told numerous times that everyone thinks I'm in my late 20's.

I didn't start drinking or anything till I was 21. I was like the outcast of all of my friends because they started partying in their teens and I was totally against it.

[TurdBerglar]

This feels like the sort of thing I would want to actually see some numbers on - no one seems to agree.

It could be just the people that I know. I don't know everyone....

[TurdBerglar]

I was like the outcast of all of my friends because they started partying in their teens and I was totally against it.

this is one of the things im talking about. this wouldn't have been a problem if you were born later on. it still happens but not as much?

[Dorothy Wood]

You folks are going to be just as unhealthy as a group than we are. Maybe even worse.

This is probably true for the average person. I think maybe overall there are more people living healthier because of increased awareness of nutrition science, but food is being consumed in much higher quantities than ever before.

And kids still eat garbage willingly. My 19 year old cousin eats fast food and parties and smokes. Totally unhealthy.

[ericlee]

this is one of the things im talking about. this wouldn't have been a problem if you were born later on. it still happens but not as much?

Man, I don't know if it's a big city thing but it seems worse. I get on the train and kids that look like they're still in junior high talk about weed and beer. It happens almost every time I'm on the train and kids are on it.

[checkyourprez]

kids have always been getting fucked up from a young age. the kids that are predisposed to it do it. they are the same ones who would have been hippys in the 70s doing drugs then.

i would say my brother and i are the healthiest out of our friends. but we both grew up playing soccer our whole lives and my dad was from italy so we always had more of a Mediterranean diet growing up.


one of my good friends who is not fat or anything, a fairly in shape person, had never eaten a salad until college. his family just didnt put an emphasis on vegetables and healthier eating. i just grew up with it so i was used to it.


i think its just a product of a generation where fast food and gluttony were available and almost celebrated as our right as americans. and that generation has birthed kids doing the same thing.



it hasnt been until the last 10 years or so that all these fad diets, nutrition facts and healthy living has become "fashionable". its almost more of an "im cool i do crossfit" type of thing.


i just eat well, exercise, play soccer, etc, so i look sexy when im naked. :D

[Randetica]

smoking was cool back then

[TurdBerglar]

Man, I don't know if it's a big city thing but it seems worse. I get on the train and kids that look like they're still in junior high talk about weed and beer. It happens almost every time I'm on the train and kids are on it.

but it tapers off after the high school years more so now than then?

the reason why I think this, is that it seems my parents generation seems to always be looking for some sort of an excuse to have a beer or ten. and I remember as a kid my parents getting together with friends and family and getting shitfaced on a regular basis. and all my friends have the same experience with their parents. but none of us really drink or do anything like that.

and other people that we know that are of the same generation as our parents drink more than we do now and they seemed to be perplexed that we don't drink. if im at work and im all tired and shit the older guys all seem to think im hung over. all like.... rough night, buddy? ;). and I tell them that I've never been hung over because I don't drink. they just look at me all like.... what is it with this guy :confused:. he doesn't drink, he doesn't order Chinese food with us he doesn't eat the donuts that bill brings in the morning he always turns down when I offer to buy him a soda... they think im some sort of weirdo. but my behavior seems to be par for the course with everyone else there that's apart of my generation. they just look at us like we're assholes or something.

why is this mother fucker eating MANGOS!!!!

because mangos are fucking heaven!

[Bernard Goetz]

I work on a huge state college campus and a major percentage of the students are lardasses.

[Documad]

Yep. When I look back at photos from my teenage years of kids I knew who were thought of as fat, I realize that they would look thin today.

[Dorothy Wood]

Yep. When I look back at photos from my teenage years of kids I knew who were thought of as fat, I realize that they would look thin today.

My mom used to think she was huge in high school, but she was a trim size 12 most likely, if I look at pictures of her from then.

Geez I thought I was huge in high school because there were only like 3 overweight girls in my year. I do find myself kinda jealous of chubby teenagers in a way. It would've been easier to navigate high school if I didn't consider myself a whale compared to everyone else. But nowadays tons of kids are fat! Yay! :(

[abbott]

people born in the 50s think its normal to eat fried pigs feet for one example. At least the Arkansas old-timers I know.

The old New Mexicans seem much more healthier than the old southeast I know. Eating green chili and beans.

[Lex Diamonds]

Cuz they're old.

[FunkyHiFi]

As far as the cancer issue is concerned, this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing) might be one of the causes :(:
Over 500 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests were conducted at various sites around the world from 1945 to 1980. As public awareness and concern mounted over the possible health hazards associated with exposure to the nuclear fallout, various studies were done to assess the extent of the hazard......

[M|X|Y]

my grandpa said that when he was young he'd be encouraged to eat the fat on meat because it was "healthy".

plus i think people were stupid

[TurdBerglar]

back before anyone had office jobs and people basically farmed and did labor work, people would consume 2000 calories just for breakfast. that was less then 100 years ago. we used to HAVE to eat like pigs into order to live because we use to do much more physical activities. that mentality hasn't fully gone away.

[TAL]

I'm not unhealthy.