"I've no idea how our culture can address this trend, but it breaks my heart to see such an almost inevitably short life determined - for such young kiddies - by early parentally-determined dietary habits."


Actually, CS...that's a very interesting point.

I found a video the other day, on Youtube..a Top of the Pops one, that I put on here, on another thread...and one of the comments on there was about how skinny everyone in the audience was, not one overweight person at all...Got me thinking back to the 70s, and it was true, people were so much thinner back then..(er....myself included!) :0)

Simple, home-cooked food and one helluva lot less alcohol back then, I guess...and it wasn't considered 'OK' to be huge either, which now it is...In fact, you couldn't even by large clothes, apart from in the occasional 'outsize' shop...(such a catchy name that)

And here's that very video, again...Skinny Times..

'The Resurrection Shuffle - Top of the Pops - Youtube


(By the way, that 'play' bit was beautifully put, Little Hawk)