Life's vital force

[salvorhardin]

This is an advertisement from 1933 encouraging British mothers to give their kids sweets (especially sweets with the Glucose logo) for the health benefits. Saw it in a friend's Facebook gallery and immediately thought of the great nutrition wars sometimes fought here.

[DesertFlower]

1. no wonder so many of them had

rotting teeth.

[Tumbulu]

2. the little boy looks like what I imagine Dudley Dursley to look like (nt)

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. I have an old candy jar, the sort that held penny candies

On the label it says, "Candy is food, enjoy some every day."

[supernova]

4. LOL! What a find.

:D

I guess it's indicative of times when good nutrition isn't always available. Many people didn't eat well during the Depression, then WWII and rationing started a few years later.

That's one thing that tickles me so much about the Harry Potter books. Any time Harry or his friends are sick or feel bad, the adults are pushing chocolate in their faces. :D

[salvorhardin]

5. I was thinking about WWII era British food too

A couple of years back I saw a show on WWII era British cooking where they actually cooked recipes that were popular at the time, and/or eaten often by average families because they were recommended by the British government to help people scrape by on their rations. The food was simply horrendous! A true dietetic nightmare. Screw any of the diets that claim to represent what's "optimum" for the human body (they're all mostly junk aside from a few like the Mediterranean diet) but damn, WWII era British food was frightening. It's hard to see how they maintained even minimal nutrition. Concoctions of lard, powdered milk and eggs, and a little flour fried. I honestly think that even Americans who eat steady diets of highly processed factory foods get better nutrition than they did. Certainly anyone today who makes a minimal effort to incorporate fresh or frozen veggies and eats an ethnically diverse diet (i.e. includes things like fritatas, stir fries, etc.) does.