.... in wartime? My dad says when he was growing up in WW2 people didn't have things like fridges and freezers. People shopped every day for fresh veg, dairy etc. But in todays society it's all convenience and additives, keeping things for weeks and months on end.
2007-03-20 00:44:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Seems to me the biggest positive difference between then and now is how easy it is to overindulge. In wartime it's the luxuries - nice, but not healthy - that are restricted.
Life expectancy today is longer by a decade, despite this, but that extra life is often lived in a very unpleasant state - problems with joints, failing senses etc. It's sometimes hard to see it as an improvement in all cases. In the early 20th century, many people died fairly peacefully, in near coma, of pneumonia complications. Now we keep those people alive - sometimes to suffer until something we still can't cure takes them in great pain.
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2007-03-20 00:56:50 · answer #1 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We certainly ingest more chemicals in our foods nowadays.
Due to modern farming methods and pesticides etc., apparently ALL the planet has traces of pesticides due to cross-contamination of soils and wind carrying chemicals, amongst other things.
Additives also seem to be more common, as are processing of foods. I wouldn't say that 60 years ago it was TOTALLY fine though. Maybe if we look back a few hundred years ago food was probably much more nutritious than it is now.
2007-03-20 01:02:42 · answer #2 · answered by harry_the_monk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't have to be, that's a lifestyle choice. We never buy convenience foods and get all our fruit and vegetables fresh from the market every week.
2007-03-20 00:57:23 · answer #3 · answered by gerrifriend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To a certain degree yes...there was no fast food(as opposed to today, I just recently saw that USAers typically eat 69% of their meals while on the run...or on their way from the home to work, and it generally isnt healthy food)....the fruits/veggies that they did have were more organic than those today
2007-03-20 00:51:04 · answer #4 · answered by dP 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Healthier in them days because there was not so much fast food so people eat a lot more healthier.not as many cars so they walked or rode bikes.etc..
2007-03-20 00:53:10 · answer #5 · answered by Big Al 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋