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 ...

BMI is horrible indicator of one’s fitness level.

My daughter (the one in the green dirndl) has an "overweight" BMI, but she wears a size small. I'm considered "extremely obese". Could never get below "obese", even when I was long-distance running in the mountains and wore a size 8. I now go by waist-to-height ratio and jean size. Have a pair of o...