Introduction
FLIP THROUGH YOUR parents' or grandparents' family albums and you're likely to be struck by how thin everyone looks.The women probably wore size-four dresses and the men sported 32-inch waists.Overweight was something measured only by a few pounds; obesity rare. Overweight children? Almost never.Any 42-inchwaists? Not here.Two-hundred-pound teenagers? Certainly not.
Why were the June Cleavers of the fifties and sixties,the stay-at-home housewives as well as other people of that era,so much skinnier than the modern people we see at the beach,mall,or in our own mirrors?While women of that era typically weighed in at 110 or 115 pounds,men at 150 or 165 pounds,today we carry 50,75, even 200 pounds more.




