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I found a very good internet article PFIT BLOG posted an article ‘’ Need to Lose Weight? Eat Like it’s 1950’’ outlining the fact of what it was like during the 50’s era and how a ‘’normal’’ family ate dinner every day in an average household. Meals in the 1950’s were much simpler, easy and eating outside of the household was a huge big deal in the family. Eating out once a week was like hitting the lottery for most families. 50 years ago having a soda was only about once a week, and know we are grabbing a can of coke or any of the 7 choices you can have from our fridge. Also, most of our desserts were homemade and made organic grown from our backyards, not store bought. Having ice cream at my grandparent’s house was an event for most of

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