Being worried about being overweight really started in the late 1910s-early 1920s - it really came in with the flappers. Before that, young women usually tried to gain weight - it showed that you were prosperous since you could afford to eat regularly, not to mention once you did become pregnant helped keep you and the baby healthy. Abundant food, rising hemlines and the long, straight lines in women's clothing in the early 20s, as well as the rise of mass advertising and its conformist message, have resulted in almost a century of us wishing we could lose weight.
Typical "corporations are teh evul!!!". Are you aware that those terrible corporations are themselves the largest beneficiary of those subsidies you support?
Oh, but it's better to have lots of small farmers, the same way we all have small workshops that produce handmade cars, electronics, etc.
How about we get rid of farm subsidies and see what happens? After all, if as you claim our food prices shoot up then we can reintroduce them.
If you pay close attention to Cary Grant's movie His Gal Friday, he ad libs a line about the last person to threaten him was Archie Leach "and he cut his own throat a week later".
I increasingly find it hard to believe that an insidious cabal of Irishmen haven't taken over the United Kingdom and are creating stupider and stupider laws, guidelines and regulations as revenge for centuries of oppression.
BTW, bah! Humbug!
Typical "corporations are teh evul!!!". Are you aware that those terrible corporations are themselves the largest beneficiary of those subsidies you support?
Oh, but it's better to have lots of small farmers, the same way we all have small workshops that produce handmade cars, electronics, etc.
How about we get rid of farm subsidies and see what happens? After all, if as you claim our food prices shoot up then we can reintroduce them.