Pre-Existing Conditions - If You're over 50, You Haz 'Em.

[malaise]

40. Well they let us hurt ourselves

and have fun. We were less protected and given way more space to play and roam - we climbed fruit trees, rode bikes without helmets. We used to do gymnastics on a tree and a fence below - outside the fence was a concrete gutter - we were raving mad.
Only one person ever fell - my younger sister landed on the fence and broke two teeth. The rest of us continued right through the long holidays.

It's also true that most of our parents knew very little about diet change in those days. That said, parents from the 60s and 70s could have changed some of the crap they gave their kids.