Did You Know That 100 Years Ago...?

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... women were 10 inches smaller around the waist and men were 1.5 stones lighter.

Are we just a bunch of fat slobs these days or what?
These figures are AVERAGES not the standard.

Source: The Diets Time Forgot on C4.
They said 10 inches waist and 1.5 stones for women and men respectively.

I find it hard to believe myself so quit shooting the messenger FFS.
 
What can I say! Mankind has made our life easier through technology and harder through stress. Not many people have time to exercise. Gosh if only my waist were 10inches smaller and i was 1.5 stones lighter!
 
i agree, their diet was much healthier, when they had rations and stuff. People then were also a lot shorter, though.

woah good point made from someone here, they did die a lot earlier, like in their 50s or in their 20s from random diseases that today's medicine and diet can prevent.
 
Did you know that 100 years ago, there was no McDonalds, Taco Bell, KFC, or Jack in the Box?

That's why people were smaller back in the day.
 
we will get even fatter soon when we are all TAXED out of a job, sitting at our cardboard box homes on a street some where.
 
They were probably also shorter. We've grown quite a bit since those days. It's better nutrition and throwing away those corsets!
 
Yeh, that's what poverty did to people, malnourishment kept the working classes, in particular, small. You only had to look at my dad and his brother to see what it could do.
 
who you calling a fat slob ? i attend the gym 4 times a week , cheeky cow ! anyway women wore corsets in those days and had tiny waists through cheating ! x
 
yes well did,nt they lace them up so that they was smaller still and the poor girl could not breath i believe in letting it all hang out
 
You got a link?

If I were 10 inches smaller round the waist I would be a size 22.
 
That also applies to 50 years ago - when I had a 23-24 inch waist. Mine has definitely increased since reaching 70! Actually, I'm the same weight I was then but it has rearranged itself!
 
women were classed as women at the age of 14 100 years ago so their waists would be smaller. If you want mine 10 inches smaller now id have a waist of 16 inches which would make me 10 years old!!
 
Speak for ya sel ya big bull.If i was 10 inches smaller round the waste,,the trolls would get their wish,,i'd be extinct :)
 
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