why are the women in the 60's and 70's so slim? How did they get like that?

Answer 1

Fewer labour saving household appliances, better diet, and less sitting on their butts watching the soaps.

Answer 2

Women then and from every age before, like now, have always come in all shapes and sizes and colors too. Women who don't fit the media mold just generally don't get portrayed appropriately in the media, so you have gotten a skewed vision of what they were really like.

Our society continues to view a slender person as a beautiful one, which is why you continue to see so much of it. But not every culture equates slender with beautiful. In many places, they associate slender with sickly and poor. Certainly there are some very beautiful slender women in the world, but they don't have the market cornered. All kinds of women can be (and are) beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

If you are concerned about overweight, forget all that crap you see on TV. There are only 2 real ways to be slim:

(1) Eat less calories than you burn.
(2) Burn more calories than you eat.

Answer 3

It wasn't just women from the 60s and 70s, it's just that compared to nowadays people didn't have such a sedentary, fast-food/ready meal eating lifestyle. Prior to the 90s and 00s even fairly stupid people had sensible parents who fed them properly and taught them how to cook. Now people tend to work long hours and/or don't have time, can't be bothered or are too ignorant/stubborn to cook according to a well-balanced diet.
Being slim was the norm in previous decades, they didn't have to try because people in general had more common sense back then.

Answer 4

In the 60,s and 70,s women actually cared how they looked.

Answer 5

There was less processed food then and more emphasis on fresh food which was bought every day due to refrigeration being very expensive. The girls were also smaller physically not particularly in height but in stature. I went to school in the 70's and if you found a teenage girl of 15-16 with a 32" bust you were well in and the envy of all your mates. The lifestyle was also less sedentry than it is now much more physical activity and we all played out not sat in watching tv or playing on computers.

Answer 6

In the 60s and 70s people had better balanced diets and less processed foods. Our grandparents eat smaller portions and exercised more. But like every generation there are still overweight people.

Answer 7

There were plenty of overweight people in the 1960's and 70's. Look at Cass Elliott of the Mamas and Papas, or Aretha Franklin. You just see all the more beautiful models and actresses of the period.

Answer 8

because its a running affect through time, in the 1900's women were even skinnier, think about those crushing corsets, so it carried on through the 60's n 70's getting slightly bigger but still pinched-wasted with style factors contibuting but slowly through the 80's and 90's we've got bigger. N'est pas?

Answer 9

I think its a biological thing - the fat people die off younger and generally only optimum=weighted people last into their old age. So there we are left with the healthy eaters and those with a healthier lifestyle and that is what you are seeing now - and the binge-eaters and MacDonalds Kings and Queens of this world go to their graves early - its our own choice I guess!!!

Answer 10

They didn't have MacDonalds. They had to walk and cycle places as not everyone drove. They played outside as children and didn't sit in front of the computer every day. They ate properly, and didn't live on convenience food. Simple really.