Laeserin on Nostr: People were generally smaller and weaker. Regularly starved, during childhood. My dad ...

People were generally smaller and weaker. Regularly starved, during childhood. My dad grew up on Wonderbread, Jiffy corn bread, and collard greens. Occasionally, peanut butter or black-eyed peas. Hardly any meat. He joined the Army at 17 because they fed you three full meals, every day, and you got to have your own bed.

And women didn't breastfeed their kids and fed them store-bought babyfood, back then, so our generation and the one before had mishapen jawlines and terrible skin. A lot of women had hairy faces because the bad diet threw their hormones off. And people still married their cousins.

It's actually amazing, when I look around at my generations' children, how they're usually better-looking than their parents. Breastfeeding, babywearing, feeding toddlers real food, well-baby checkups and midwives, no alcohol during pregnancy, etc. Huge difference.

My Mom wore sandals made of old tires and hand-me-downs that barely fit. Her feet grew once, in winter, so her dad cut off the front of the toe section.

The old photographs trick people because the resolution was so low. Made everyone look like a movie star. 😂

There's hardly anyone that poor or neglected, anymore.