They weren’t ‘skinny in the sixties’ - they were normal! It’s the mass obesity today that’s not.

No takeaways except fish and chips. No convenience foods or ready meals.  No microwaves. Cars were not a thing everyone had. We walked more, cooked from scratch and didn’t walk down the street eating.

As children we had children's hour of TV each day in England between 4.45pm and 5.45pm, so the rest of the time we were outside playing or doing other stuff indoors in winter.  We spent very little time sitting down!

People didn't sit around on their phones eating junk food all day

I was born 1951 and grew up with good fresh, wholesome nutritional food . Our mother was a wonderful cook, and our  father kept a good garden. Growing vegetables for different seasons kept chickens for eggs and meat, and rabbits also for meat . We weren't rich in money but we ate very well. I'm now 74-year-old very fit and still believe in fresh food . My father is now 96 years old, and he still cooks and makes his own sourdough bread . Back in those days, most people were hard working and mainly walked wherever they needed to go .

Children walked to school. People walked everywhere.  It wasn't a big deal.  We had homemade chips, fried egg and peas, or chips, two fish fingers and peas.  Shops were closed on Sundays so we made cakes or meringues, which took two hours in the oven. We were allowed one piece of fruit a day. We were playing out all day, cycling, swimming.  There was usually just one fat person at school.

I can still hear her voice now, 27 years since she passed…my mum saying these words…”Would you like a bit of chocolate?”…which was said on occasion. It wasn’t “a chocolate bar” or a “fistful of Cadbury rosé chocolates”. It was, “a bit of chocolate”,  just a taste. A taste that was glorious…even to this day!

Plates were smaller. Fizzy drinks and sweets, chocolate,  crisps were a treat. If you had a chocolate bar it was one chocolate  bar, not two or three. If you had biscuits, it wasnt half a packet, two or three. Icecream was kept in a fridge icebox and didnt come in large tubs but a carboard oblong sleeve. This only held two things, fishfingers and icecream. We walked everywhere, walked to school, shops, parks. Played out all day only coming in for meals in the holidays. People didnt sit down to do things all day.most people worked standing up. People did more sports, kids played on streets running around. We didnt have tskeaways. Mum cooked fresh food from scratch, shopping for fresh food each day without using a car  but walking to and from the shops. No large portions. We did have fish and chips on Friday.  Food was fatty but cooked in lard, dripping, butter. Not vegetable  oils. No corn syrup  in food. Ceral portions were smaller, although we had sugary cereals and put sugar on cornflakes. I beleive its larger portions on larger plates, corn syrup, vegetable  oil, takeaways and a sedentary  lifestyle combination  that made us put on weight. We were all skinny until the 90s when more takeaways and bigger plates become normal.

We all had set meal times. No snack in between meals. Everything took longer to cook and prepare as it was all made from scratch with fresh ingredients. A lot of people would grow their own vegetables. Everything tasted better. Mum's used to stay at home and cook and  look after the children 😊

We didn't have much food and no money and had to walk everywhere

Our mothers cooked fresh organic food from scratch and children were outside all day playing with friends and climbing trees

We didn’t eat ready made foods, and we walked or cycled to work. In 1962 I worked for Boots.  It was downhill all the way about 1.5 miles to work: several hours in our feet serving customers ( no,self service in this days). Shops closed for lunch so I walked for 20 minutes to Grandma’s house, ate lunch and then walked back.  Shop closed at 6pm so a long walk uphill to get home, I was allowed to go out with my boyfriend on Tuesday and Thursday so another long walk to get to and from the place where we would spend the Evening. No chance of putting on weight. I am pleased to say at 78 I have managed to eat sensibly and I’m only one dress size up from my teenage years after birthing three children

I’m 71 so that was my era and we never ate them between meals.  And I dont now.  The only  fast food we had was fish and chips and my mum cooked from scratch every meal.

We weren't fat because we didn't eat junk food, didn't spend hours a day sitting round in front of computer / mobile phone screens and generally got out and did stuff.

It used to take effort to live our lives! 'Convenience ' was a relatively new thing, so we often walked to work, school, the shops, the phone box (not all homes had phones), to see our friends, etc. It was rude to eat in the street. We were not supposed to 'eat between meals' and we didn't have money to buy takeaways and snacks. Our Mums went to the shops most days for basics and Dad grew most of our fruit and vegetables in the garden. It was a much simpler life, no anxiety about different phone, gas, electricity companies and 'packages,'  safer for kids to ride their bikes and play in the street, far more open fields and woodland to enjoy. No worries about social media or the cost of broadband. This is a brilliant, nostalgic video and I wish we could go back to those times.

People worldwide were slimmer then. Fast food is the #1 culprit.

I'm 63, and as a kid, you couldn't get me into the house. All food was home-cooked, and biscuits came in a big tin at Christmas. Sweets came from an uncle or aunt who visited once in a blue moon.

I still eat like this and have never been overweight.  I am 70 though, so grew up in the 60's. I don't have a car and still walk and cycle.

We didn't eat in-between  meals and didn't eat in the street

There wasn’t any snacking. One was positively hungry by the time the next meal time came. Chocolate was a treat and housework was more physical