When did people get so big?? Observations from the grocery store.

Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess.

Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess.

For whatever reason I really noticed it yesterday morning at the grocery store. The people were huge, not just overweight, but tall. I am an over 50 woman and stand at about five feet tall with a medium build.

When I was in high school 80-83 it seemed the tallest girls were about 5’7” or 8” and I remember my friend on the boys basketball team was the tallest at 6’4”. There were only a few overweight kids, and they weren’t obese, but chubby. I went to school in what would be considered rural SC and our school was about 60% white to 40% black (as an aside, there were no racial issues at all as I remember it and everyone got along).

I first noticed super big people about 10 years ago on a visit home while in a bar. The bar was full of what looked to be college kids and as I was trying to leave a girl stood up in front of me and all I saw was her butt. She must have been 7’ feet tall, and she was big. I was shocked, so much so, I still remember it. I felt bad for her, actually, and imagined it had to be uncomfortable as she kind of lumbered out in front of me.

So yesterday morning we’re in the city doing our shopping at Kroger, we’re mostly there for produce and dairy and a few odds and ends, and the store is busy. It was one of those days where it seems everyone is blocking the aisles or standing in front of what I need, and the energy felt rushed, like there wasn’t enough for everyone. Approaching the diary section I was cut off by a tall, obese woman with a huge buggy (shopping cart) and stopped and stared, every person in the diary section was huge, like over 6 feet tall and fat. The women were big, the men were bigger, and the children were well on their way to being bigger than their parents. What in the hell?

Being small has its advantages and I slithered in and retrieved the butter (not margarine) I was seeking, and we got out of there as fast as possible. Hubby and I talked about it on the way home, reminiscing of what we remembered from our youth and how people have changed. He went to school in New England and said there was only one fat kid in his high school.

Now everywhere you look you see giant people, not just overweight, but tall. I don’t recall ever being aware of my small stature until the last decade, and at 5’1” there were shorter people than me in my dealings, but now I rarely see them and when I do they are older.

It’s easy to see that we are evolving to be bigger, looking at uniforms and dresses from the civil war era shows they we have gotten larger, and even looking at sewing patterns from the 1960s show that women have gotten bigger. I wonder how much of that is a natural event, and how much is from the bad food, water, and prescriptions.

The people I saw yesterday are not healthy, and it was funny, or scary, that I saw one average sized person and she stood out. The young woman of a normal size stood out because she was the only one in the store who looked healthy.

I am 6 foot 165lbs.
Perfect medically for my height. I always have people tell me I'm too skinny, or the skinny guy.

Nope, your just fat!

Calories isn't the problem exactly the problem. After all its just a unit of energy.
The issue regarding size is growth hormones and steroids in milk/dairy/beef/chicken.
Obesity is caused by 2 things, fat and processed sugar.
You cut both those out of your diet, you could eat 10,000 calories a day and not gain weight..

My family has mostly escaped it, luckily, although we have had some weight issues. I have always fought my weight, but now with menopause behind me it seems to have settled down.

I don't drink sodas, quit alcohol, on no prescriptions, eat little carbs, and basically have one big meal a day - meat and veggies. Raise my own chickens for eggs, and grow a garden every summer.

I can't believe how much soda and soft drinks and sugary drinks I see in people's buggies.

My boys are in high school . The girls are all over weight and look horrid .


The ones that are in shape are cell phone addicts and nasty .


I would not want to be a teen . it's slim Pickens trying to find a decent girl with some ethics .

My boys are handsome . The 17 year old is discouraged .

He can't stand fake girls and that's all there is he say's .

My 2 year old looks 4 or 5 years.
But so do 2 of her cousins so I think it’s genetic. I only ate organic while pregnant with her and she was born with huge fat thighs and they’re still huge. Must be from a lot of nutrients and evolution.

Exactly.

And add to it how our bodies react to GMOs and you get these huge people. As the years go by we will see these folks dying at a much younger age. All in the name of greed, making a whole nation sick. Then big pharma and corporate modern medicine make an even bigger killing. We are being sorely used.

Cut out fat? You're an idiot. You'll go into "Rabbit Starvation". Your body doesn't need carbohydrates to function (it can use gluconeogenesis for the minute amounts needed by the brain and run the rest on ketone bodies); it does, however require fat for the brain and hormone production. Please don't spread dangerous misinformation.

You're shrinking op. It's cool though I am too. It comes with getting old.

typo they are large now but only chubby when i had them.
once they left, balloon city.

Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess.

No muscle
When I was 18 I was 6 ft 1/2 inch and 195 pounds
I did chores after school and was NOT fat.

I have noticed this for quite some time! Another thing I have noticed is a lot of men young and old look like they're 8 months pregnant other wise they don't look much overweight/fat. It's weird seeing this I bet they haven't seen their feet in years!

I agree with those that said there is all kinds of crud in our foods may very well be a contributing factor along with
little or no exercise!

Carbs kill.