Is it possible they meant that we don't take in more calories than we did 100 years ago - that I could believe - if you look at old menus , with four, five courses, meat in all of them, huge breakfasts etc etc? But that all came to an end during WW II pretty much.. Also there's the point that manual work really used to be manual. i remeber reading that colliers used to dink 10 or 11 pints of beer a day - nowadays they'd be alcoholics, then they were just rehydrating from the working conditions.
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Re: My 2 cents :)
Date: 2007-04-24 12:38 pm (UTC)Also there's the point that manual work really used to be manual. i remeber reading that colliers used to dink 10 or 11 pints of beer a day - nowadays they'd be alcoholics, then they were just rehydrating from the working conditions.