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Yes I liked this article, thanks. I worked with a 95yr old lady today, took her shopping. She purchased vegetables, meat (with bones so she could get the broth), dairy, fruit, oats and cereal. Nice slim lady, still lives at home and has only just needed someone to help drive her to the shops, she used to walk. Inspiring. Not that a good diet can guarantee this but getting back to basics with food does help I'm sure.

Great article. Thank you.

Here's some other Grandma-themed things:

American Women Didn't get Fat in the 1950s
https://www.amazon.com/American-Women-D ... 50sdiet-20

Great Depression Cooking
https://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking

That is a great article - thanks. Grandma knew best!

I wish we could gather these and other non-snack evidence threads together.

But, I have to say, BOTH my grandmothers were fat. One of them died that way in her 60's; the other was just about starved down, lived to be 78, never regained, and never complained about the strategy. One was from Italy, the other from Ireland. But neither country had high average BMI's, so they were the exceptions.

I want to mention that the adds under the page for me were two books about grandma wisdom, one about Parisian beauty secrets and one on baseball, of all things. Not sure what prompted that.

Haha! Baseball Tips? Where did that come from? I had one grandmother who was always healthy. She raised a garden and canned food, raised a hog every year and had it , ummm, turned into meat every fall. Hard working woman. Raised nine kids by herself while her husband worked out of town through the week. She smoked a pipe and chewed tobacco. She cooked everything in lard. LARD. Cooked a big breakfast every morning. Never had pop or snack cakes in the house. Flip side: my other grandma married a man who made decent money. She could afford to NOT raise her own food. Every time I went to house, she had a fridge stocked with glass bottles of Pepsi and a pantry with Little Debbies. The television was always on, playing her "stories" (soap operas). She ended up with diabetes and COPD from smoking cigarettes. She had a rough few years before she passed. My other grandmother died at about the same age from a rare blood disorder not related to lifestyle. It's hard to figure things out sometimes. My mom grew up eating all that lard and is a very healthy weight with no heart disease. I'm just rambling now. Wish I could have learned more from my mom's mom.

I'm pretty sure the author of the book on women not getting fat in the 50's is a staunch advocate of calorie counting. It irks me that she has nearly as many Amazon reviews as No S (in many fewer years), but less than that a book on green smoothie cleansing has 52x the number of reviews! but I'm getting way off topic except that it would have been a very unusual grandma that did a smoothie cleanse. Maybe some of the smoothie failures will show up here eventually because they sure aren't going to maintain their weight loss.

Thanks for the links!

I love stuff like this.

Yet more reason why no s is aka "the grandma diet."

Reinhard

oolala53 wrote:I want to mention that the adds under the page for me were two books about grandma wisdom, one about Parisian beauty secrets and one on baseball, of all things. Not sure what prompted that.

I saw that the other day too, but now it's been replaced by "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," LOL!

Cedar and MaggieMae, those portraits of an old woman and a feisty granma were delicious.
Thanx.

The author of American Women Didn't get Fat in the 1950s, Avery Hill, posted this 50's Public Service Announcement online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14oSJAYFMwo.

I found it very interesting.
To keep this short, I'll mention just the No-Seconds attitude it recommends and the (calorie-counting-driven) fat-phobia that the 50's seeded.
Little Devils are shown pushing fat.
In my book, it's Devils who bamboozled us with calorie thinking and took our fat food away.

That video is so wrong in so many ways...IMHO.