I watched this again recently, and was urprised that I didn't see any, not one, overweight person in any of the crowd shots, and there were a lot of those. The only "people of girth" were the members of Canned Heat on stage. Of course, the vast majority of the attendees were young, teens to twenties, and most would hve identified themselves as hippies, but still. This seems to me an extraordinary testament to the changing times.
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It's one of the most noticeable facts about the film. Shows how everything was better back then, except technology. And even that is open to question too.
After all... tomorrow is another day.
I grew up in the '50s and '60s. Almost all of the kids and teenagers were skinny. I remember one kid at my school when I was in 4th grade who was noticeably overweight. It was so unusual that he was a sort of celebrity, known by everyone as "Webb, the fat kid". We were all outside from breakfast till dinner time, running around, playing pickup baseball and football games, riding our bikes, climbing trees and fences, etc. There were fast-food places everywhere, but we didn't eat there every day. We didn't eat particularly "healthy", but we didn't eat quite as much.
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shareA new book that I almost finished is called 10 percent human. It is about the power of the multitude of bacteria in our gut and how we are just now grasping on how it shapes us.
She wrote a chapter on obesity. One factor which cites how the size of chickens has increased since 1940 by using growth hormones. It is now believed that these hormones survive and live on in our guts, affecting our micro gut bacteria that in turn makes humans 'grow' also.
A lot of hippies back then weren't into eating red meat. So that explains why there were no fatties there.
shareoverweight people were at home eating TV dinners you dummy
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