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Originally posted by naughty A
my .02
at one time... mild obesity was a highly desired physical trait, it meant wealthy.
It meant your family not only had enough to eat, but it had surplus, and you did live longer because you were eating regularly... you lived longer and thus longer fertile period and more children.
a very valuable trait when you lived in a times of frequent famine without refridgerators and grocery stores chains. |
That’s a great point...
Other popular items of the time when obesity was in (not in any particular order)
Palm aid for the hair
To main poison
Rickets
Pleurisy
Black plague
Heart attacks
Worms
Lice
Body odor
Wife beating (very popular at that time)
8th grade education for farm children (large families on farm needed the work force)
Early death (most popular in those times)
Slavery
I’m so glad I don’t live back then when all this was popular.