Why we are becoming an overweight nation.
Today: I throw the clothes in the washer and dryer, fold or hang and I am done.
Back Then: I had to go draw water from the well, gather wood for a fire, boil pots of water it to get it hot. Rub clothes on the wash board with soap I made from Lye, rinse and wring them out one by one. Hang on a clothes line to dry, then removed the laundry from the line, and iron.
Today: I can drive through and order a friend chicken dinner and all the fixings. 
Back Then: I can to go out and catch a chicken, kill it, clean it, cut it up. Heat up the grease on a stove I have loaded with fire wood. Boiled potatoes that I planted and plowed, to make mash potatoes with butter and milk I got from the cow. (of course I had to make that butter) Of course I had to make the biscuits from scratch, and my pie is from the fruit I picked off my fruit trees. Any other meat meant raising it or hunting it and dressing an animal out. Guess what, no refrigeration back then.
Today: I jump in the car and run to the mall.
Back Then: I had to get the horse and harness it, hitch it up to the buggy, and head off with no air conditioning 
or heat at probably a top speed of maybe 8 miles and hour. I purchase the cloth to make our clothes, and purchase the bare staples of things I cannot make or grow.
Today: kids are in front of the tv, on the computer, playing games and for a rare few, sports in school.
Back Then: early to rise to feed the animals, gather the eggs, walk to school, play ball or whatever at recess, walk home from school, help with the chores and do homework. Gather water from the well for drinking and baths, no radio, no television, no video games, and neighbors can be miles away. Maybe a little fishing on the weekends.
Get the idea? Not really that we are lazy or we over eat all the time...but the inventions to make ours lives easier...have made us larger.
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