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Why do "Babyboomers" appear to be sicker?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Jul 24, 2023 | Replies (34)Comment receiving replies
I don't qualify as a Baby Boomer; too old for that, close to 83.
There is hardly anything about the world that is the same as when I was growing up. It was cleaner, the air was purer, and we ingested fewer chemicals. The oranges and tomatoes I ate had ripened naturally, not forced to be attractive by gassing them. Home freezers were not at all common, so we pretty much ate fresh meat, poultry, and fish.
I don't remember anything plastic in the 40s and 50s...if it wasn't china or ceramic or even Melmac; it was paper. None of our cleaning agents were as powerful; elbow grease meant the most. I love the modern convenience of the microwave but think how often items are heated in plastic containers. All the water available was good clean water. Did you ever think you would pay money for water in a plastic bottle? What is in a Monster drink?
The worst and most shocking thing in high school was drinking a beer~ not hard liquor mixed with marijuana (I know it has medicinal benefits) maybe mixed with a few mushrooms. I'd only read about cocaine in my social studies book yet I lived its horror with one of my sons who is 62 and now clean.
In a nutshell....fresh, clean, healthy air and ecosystem are history....and it can't be helping. Life was simpler then. No Visa, so you only purchased what you could afford. Much less tension...families compromised and managed with one car. The cost of living and wages earned have the widest gap ever. I feel bad for the Boomers and wish I could say it isn't getting worse.🥲💞
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Hello Grammy,
I just had to put in a quick story about "elbow grease". When my older sister was maybe 14 my mother told her in a motherly way to go and clean something, "I'm not sure what it was". Well sis came back in the house and complained that it wasn't getting clean and she didn't know what to do. I think she was trying to get out of her job. Anyway Mom told her to use some "elbow grease" and do what she was supposed to. Sis went to the kitchen closet and looked and looked. Finally she yelled to Mom. "I CAN'T FIND ANY ELBOW GREASE. WHERE IS IT? Mom about fell to the floor laughing. She had to explain it to sis just what elbow grease was. To this day we all laugh about it.
I couldn't have expressed it better, Grammy! With the globalization of the world, high tech, AI, etc...there are things that are good (medical advances for one) but I cannot help wishing things were the way they were when I was growing up. I am a little bit embarrassed to admit that I am glad I am not a youngin'! 🙂
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Hi Grammy82!
Everything you say is so true! I'm 77 and I am a Baby Boomer. Luckily, a healthy one. Reading what you wrote sounded like I was reading about my own life growing up in the 50's and 60's. Things were cleaner and fresher. Unfortunately, food today tastes nothing like it used to. I got very excited when some salmon I purchased recently actually tasted like salmon from the Pacific Ocean did in the 1950's! But it comes all the way from the Faroe Island which is near Iceland! I'm not sure I even knew where Iceland was in the 1950's! I don't like the Microwave for cooking! It's good for heating water for tea and that's about it. My husband and I cook everything from scratch the way my mother did.
You are so right about having one car. My father drove the car to work in the 1950's and Mom and I stayed home all day and baked cookies from scratch in the summer!
As you stated, water was all clean back then. We had a well dug in the back yard and the water tasted so good! Plus all meat tasted so good then, whether it was the best cut or the cheapest. Now the only good meat I've found is from Allen Brothers and it is very expensive!
All we can do now is pray for the future! At least we still have God but not as many people like him today, as they did back then either.
PML