Photos of the NYC subway 70's-80's

[karynnj]

23. True and everyone I knew growing up in the 1950s drank milk at every meal - and it was whole milk

My kids had 2% and then 1% at the recommendation of their pediatrician. When they were 5,7, and 10 we went to France. At the advice of a friend who had taken a trip there with his kids, we felt into a practice of whichever grown up and kid woke up first going to get pastries, coffee, milk and fruit at the various places on the block selling them. The place near us had only whole milk for sale. For several weeks afterward our kids spoke of how much better French milk was than ours.

Now I am one of 9 kids - none of whom had a significant childhood or young adult weight problem -- and most of us never worried about it.