One of the members, Meredith, of the FTA Facebook page made an amazing and delightful find. This is a British short film from 1967.
This extremely enjoyable film, which contains excellent footage of late 1960's home life, attitudes to food and meal times, addresses obesity in children. A female GP narrates the story of three children who are overweight for their age stressing that although there may be some inherited causes of their obesity, it is mostly due to over-feeding on the part of the parents, what the GP calls a cruel kindness.
The message is slightly mixed, in that part of it is about "eating too much," which somewhat misses the point. Feed the kids protein & fat and they'll eat less on their own (and exercise, also stressed in the film). That said, it's clearly evident that the root cause is believed to be carbohydrate; i.e., valid knowledge, now lost and kept lost by legions of murderers & maimers (most dietitians, doctors, researchers -- the "white" coats -- and big agri-business) for their own bogus livelihoods and prestige. Give it a look. Total run time is only about 12 minutes.
Part I
That was a really sweet little film! I loved the way nobody had any qualms about using the word “fat”! Imagine calling little Jimmy “far too fat” these days. His mother would sue the school for pain and distress. Poor little Valerie, I felt for her. Thanks for posting this, it made my day! Off now to have my zero carb fat-laden breakfast. I remember my mother warning me of the dangers of “stodge.” (There’s a word you don’t hear nowadays.) You’re right, her generation knew these things, and the wisdom has been lost (or hidden).
I was 12 years old in 1967. A diet supplemented by a large number of French Fancies & Corona Lemonade took its toll.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nigel.kinbrum/Mum%20&%20me%20Laigueglia%20Italy%201967.jpg
Horizontal stripes. Oh, Noes!
Great stuff. Amazing that those fat kids would look normal nowadays.
i love the repeated use of the word “fat” – no messing around then.
“Amazing that those fat kids would look normal nowadays”
So true. When I was in elemenatry school there were a couple fat kids in the entire school… now there are 3-4 (at least) in each class. Schools are partly to blame… I worked at my kids’ school last year during lunch and also attended many class parties – the food (and quantities) they are eating is appalling. my daughter’s holiday party featured: cupcakes, brownies, 5 kinds of cookie, sweetened popcorn, chips and juice boxes and no limits were set. No wonder kids are fat…
btw, does anyone know if it is possible to calcualte (or approximate) grams of “added sugar” from the info on a nutrition label? I’m trying to change attitudes (and policy) at my school/district and am using the AHA recomendations on limiting added sugars, but wondered how to communictae amounts. I know there is a listing in the usda data base, but this is too much info for most…
great find! =)
@sandra,
http://www.sugarstacks.com/
well it’s not exact and it’s not technically “added sugar”, but it’s an idea…hope it helps.
thanks for the link! this would be a great demo for a nutrition lesson plan for classrooms…
Excellent find! (And, of course, we all talk like that in the UK!)
Awesome videos. Thanks a lot. I love when old videos can break down our difficult issues so simply and bluntly.
Christmas Dinner at my parents: I passed on the basket with french baguette without taking a slice. “Afraid to get fat, aren’t you?”, my father said to me. He is 69, and obviously remembers the dietary wisdom of earlier times. I just wish he would heed it himself! He is diabetic, and suffers from severe peripheral artery disease in his legs.
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You just gotta love a bit of simple old school straight talk. This was an excellent find Richard, unfortunately many parents today would be running to the lawyers if a good doctor were to use the F#* word to describe Junior.
Have to wonder if the commenters here know any fat people? Believe me, many get called ‘fat’ to their face often, and by their doctors.
When children become fat it is essentially because they are eating salty food. Children are especially vulnerable to salt because of their small size and small blood volume, and because their blood vessels are weaker than those of adults. Salt, and the water it attracts to it, can more easily distend weak blood vessels than fully mature ones. The resulting increase in blood volume and other fluid retention results in weight gain, as well as higher blood pressure and many other undesirable consequences. The smaller the child, the less salt they should have – and a baby, of course, should have no salt at all. – Babies can die if they are fed salty food.
Obesity is caused by sensitivity to salt. The ‘lucky people’ referred to in the videos are the people who are not sensitive to salt and therefore do not develop fluid retention when they eat salt or salty food.
Lose excess weight by eating less salt and salty food. By eating less salt/sodium your body is able to shed some of the excess fluid and it is excreted in the urine.
I feel like something of an anomaly, in that despite being near 300 lbs at one point (5’5″ small-framed female, too! HUGE), not ONCE has a doctor even mentioned it. Well, except in the medical records they don’t seem to think I’m ever going to read.
However, I did get constantly hounded in grade school about it, and still do by my mother. It got to the point where kids would point at me and go “FAT FAT FATTY FAT,” and all I could do was shrug and say “Yes, I’m fat. What about it?” They left me alone after that, eventually, because what can you say to someone who agrees with you? Mum’s a pain in the ass, though, as she’s had surgery to try to lose weight, and been on a 600 calorie liquid diet with no long-term effect. And takes it out on me. She’s the type to treat doctors as infallible, and is invested in low-fat eating, probably because of her failure with it. So I get bitched at when I eat lots of meat, and for some reason, not lots of cookies.
And people use “fat” to describe others all the time, just not always to their faces. Usually it’s things like “eatbeast” or “lard-ass”, but it’s there. The vitriol towards fat people is worse than just about anything, other than towards sex offenders. I think it would be better if people would just come out and say what they think, as if they had the balls to be the jerks they want to be, they might find out that being fat isn’t as much of a moral failing as they think.
One of my best friends in high school said it in the way that it ought to be said, I think. “You’re too heavy, Ginger. I’m worried about your health, and would like to see you be healthy and happy. As long as you stay as fat as you are, I’m afraid you’re going to get sick.” That’s how it should be. It’s devolved into a taboo subject, and generally used as an insult. Said kindly, though, it’s not a bad thing at all, just a reflection of the state of affairs. I’ve found saying it to myself to be helpful and to spur change.
“I’m way too fat. I’m tired, worn out, and unhappy. I can’t do all the things I desperately wish to. If I want to feel good, be healthy, look good, and really live life, I need to change what I’m doing. It is not a quick thing, but a constant process of viewing and reacting to myself and the world differently. Of consciously making good choices not only regarding food, but in all aspects of living. My fat, my endurance, and life reflect those choices. I can do it right here and right now. I choose to be happy and live a good life, on my terms, in this moment.”
I like to remind myself of this every once in a while. My metabolism was already broken irreparably by the time I learned to eat properly, but it’s my choice to do the things that will fix it. Kind of feel like at addict, when it comes down to it. If can be really hard when you have people actively working against you, too.
…And did anyone else notice the ouroboros logo at the film’s intro?
Hi Ginger
It is EASY, SAFE and FAST to lose weight by giving up dieting and instead just concentrate on avoiding salt and salty food. This is not a theory, it is the experience of the overweight people who take my advice on this matter. There are no adverse effects from cutting down on salt – only benefits to your health. You have nothing to lose by trying this.
Read my Mensa article http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/obesity_and_the_salt_connection.html
Lose weight by eating less salt! – Go on! – Try it! – You will feel so much better!
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Get lost, Margaret.
Who’da thought it, it’s all down to salt and salty food eh.. How could I have missed that? What a joke…