I do remember women of my mother’s era dieting. Weight Watchers was just starting. And I remember, too, Jack LaLanne on TV before that–black-and-white, with his big German shepherd. LOL. Fat children were the exception. Maybe an average of one “chubby” girl and one “husky” boy in a class of 32 kids. There were chubby and husky sizes in the stores.
We ate a lot of penny candy from the candy store across the street from the grammar school. But I don’t remember soda ever being drunk in or around school. There was milk, water from the water fountain, and maybe juice or some kind of Hi-C fruity drink. And any added sugar would be what today we label “organic sugar”–non GMO, no glyphosate.
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