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llamaimperative10/12/20241 replyview on HN

How big were the health food, gym, and fitness industries in the 50s?

Answer: literally non-existent.


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mlyle10/12/2024

How big were the 'crash diet' and 'smoke cigarettes to stay thin' and 'use amphetamines to stay thin' industries?

Indeed, we have the inception of Weight Watchers at the start of the next decade, replacing far crazier things like the cabbage diet being used en masse.

Yes, it was easier in some ways to live a healthier life; one reason why was the rampant social policing of each other's weight.

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