I’ve heard older family members say “I weighed 93 pounds on my wedding day”, and then you see a picture of them and they were slim but healthy looking (meanwhile, if you plug in their BMI, it shows that the number is so dangerously underweight).
Are those family members exaggerating, or has there been a significant change to body composition/muscle mass in people over the past 50+ years (based on diet, lifestyle)?
Semi related: could this be the origin of some men thinking that all “thin” women weigh 120 pounds (regardless of height)?
Edit: NOT talking about obesity, more like how can a person have been 93 pounds in 1960 but have an identical looking body to someone who is 130 pounds today?
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Find some family photos on the beach in the 1970’s or ’80’s.
As young kids we were “all skin and bones”, not just me and my brother, but many of the other kids on the beach too. If you saw kids that skinny these days people would be panicking and calling Social Services!
I suspect some of us were slightly unhealthily underweight back then, but the pendulum has swung very far the other way now, with almost no skinny kids, and a lot of very chubby ones.
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