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There is a guy that I know who says that if we all return to the same kind of diets we had in the 1950s, we would all be healthier if not healthy.

Think about it: what did people eat in the 1950s? Foods that had no added sugar, nothing processed, no steady diet of fast foods and certainly not gallons and gallons of soft drinks.

Breakfast was usually bacon and eggs or hot cereal (oatmeal, farina, cream of wheat) and toast with butter and maybe coffee and orange juice or milk.

Lunch was probably brown bagged or maybe you ate in the company cafeteria. I am pretty sure all they served was sandwiches.

Dinner was healthy meat like chicken or fish or a casserole and you had vegetables — and usually the vegetables were grown in your back yard. Gardening was big in those days. Milk was probably the vegetable of choice. You probably had salad with olive oil and vinegar as the dressing.

Milk was still delivered by milkmen. Milk available in a supermarket is probably strictly a mid 60s thing.

Foods sold in supermarkets were without additives and other preservatives. People still patronized a local butcher and a local baker for their dietary needs. You got meat that was well marbleized with fat and usually it was cooked the same day as you got it.

No fast food places. There was probably a hamburger stand and you didn’t get a gigantic portion — you got a smallish hamburger with fries (probably fried in real lard) and even then, adults did not eat there unless they took the kids — and even that was a very rare occasion.

Very rarely did people eat out. And it was usually done for a special occasion.

You walked to your destination most times — there was only 1 car in the family and usually Pops left it for Mom if she needed to go to a supermarket or take the kids somewhere.

You walked for recreation and leisure — there were no gyms. I don’t know what adults did for exercise in those days and there sure wasn’t any running or some other sport. Bowling was big.

Nobody had cholesterol problems or overweight problems — everybody was healthier.

This diet makes a lot of sense — no special food is needed if you want to do this on your own.

[sldavis]

#1184310

I definitely think about this all the time. I try to stick with fresh vegetables from the farmers market (even though I have no idea what pesticides are used on them) and I stick with a smaller grocery store that get their meats locally. Prior to being diagnosed with Graves’ and going through the roller coaster I did not do this. I did what most single mom’s with 3 kids do… I went for convenience. Whatever I could eat and feed my children that was fast and convenient which included a lot of drive-thru’s. Now I look back and wonder if I would not have spent years eating like that if I wouldn’t have this nasty disease or if my body would have handled it differently.

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