Why did people "back in the day" look so darn old!?

[NoleATL]

I'll be 50 next month, but Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor were 44 and 48 (respectively) when All In The Family kicked off. They look like their in their early 60s!

I think straight people look older than gays of the same age today...

 

[alaskanseminole]

I would have pounded Frenchie. Killed Rizzo. Killed pigtail bowl cut. Killed measuring tape guy in the back. Married Marty.

Pretty accurate except I think Rizzo would probably kill you first.

 

[bagdropper]

Back then, it wasn't the years - it was the mileage.

WW2, Great Depression, Korea, etc...

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

I'll be 50 next month, but Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor were 44 and 48 (respectively) when All In The Family kicked off. They look like their in their early 60s!



Look at this 1970s group of High School Kids. Good grief!

Did anyone else think that was Molly Shannon right away?

 

[Sharky1203]

MSG and other chemicals in the food.

 

[alaskanseminole]

 

[TC Nole OX]

smoking

From what I have been told, they drank a lot more alcohol back in the day. Zero exercise in those days. Fitness didn’t begin to go mainstream until the 70s

 

[TC Nole OX]

Because Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor looked 60 when they were still in their 40s? ...trying to connect the dots here.

Far more plastic surgery today

 

[goldmom]

smoking

This, plus no Botox, no Retinol, no Collagen, no Hyaluronic Acid, No microneedling, no IPL or laser surfacing and no Crest whitestrips.

We know a lot more now about getting healthy, staying healthy and looking healthy.
We are fatter though because we eat a lot more and a lot of what we ingest is processed food which is not good.

 

[Aardvark86]

Far more plastic surgery today

Reminds me of when George Friedman told us that capitalism continues to prevail because of its ability to generate new markets through advertising, including new markets for things like vaginal deodorants that we've not needed for the previous 5000 years.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

smoking

nailed it

 

[TC Nole OX]

Also, air conditioning. Most people today are not subjected to the elements like people were not too many decades ago. I can remember riding around in a car in early 1970s Miami with no a/c. In the summer, it was as hot in the car as it was outside.

 

[Tenacious E]

Also, air conditioning. Most people today are not subjected to the elements like people were not too many decades ago. I can remember riding around in a car in early 1970s Miami with no a/c. In the summer, it was as hot in the car as it was outside.

After having been in Orlando and Clearwater Beach last July, to that I say no thank you.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Reminds me of when George Friedman told us that capitalism continues to prevail because of its ability to generate new markets through advertising, including new markets for things like vaginal deodorants that we've not needed for the previous 5000 years.

Make that 1,000,000 years in some cases...

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Also, air conditioning. Most people today are not subjected to the elements like people were not too many decades ago. I can remember riding around in a car in early 1970s Miami with no a/c. In the summer, it was as hot in the car as it was outside.

I would say exposure to the sun might be a big factor there.

I'll be 50 next month, but Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor were 44 and 48 (respectively) when All In The Family kicked off. They look like their in their early 60s!

Look at this 1970s group of High School Kids. Good grief!

I think the high schoolers might in part be because of the conservative dress.

 

[goldmom]

I would say exposure to the sun might be a big factor there.


I think the high schoolers might in part be because of the conservative dress.

Yeah those kids don’t look 70’s. Mid 60’s more likely.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

There is a youtube video on this. Not entirely through it yet but it seems pretty interesting.

 

[ICWestfan]

Smoking and sun exposure.

Sugar (real cane stuff) and lard.

 

[goldmom]

Sugar (real cane stuff) and lard.

But in far lower amounts. And processed corn syrup today is not great either.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Sugar (real cane stuff) and lard.

I doubt it's food. I really don't think that they ate less healthy then we do now, odds are the opposite.

Sun exposure I think is the biggest thing but you also have factors that the hair styles and clothes are things we mentally associate with older people.

 

[abby97]

Sometimes I think people look older in past decades because of hairstyles, make-up and clothing that today we associate with being old and old fashioned. I also agree that a lot of it was due to sun exposure and smoking.

 

[Hendy hawk]

I don't remember my mother or other mothers putting on as much makeup back then either.
You were who you were, not who you wanted to emulate vanity wise.

 

[Colonoscopy]

I don't remember my mother or other mothers putting on as much makeup back then either.
You were who you were, not who you wanted to emulate vanity wise.

We live in a world with too much information these days.

 

[fivecardstud14]

We live in a world with too much information these days.

Do you say that as you look at weather forecasts two weeks out?

 

[Colonoscopy]

Do you say that as you look at weather forecasts two weeks out?

It's good for some things, not for others. I think a lot of our misery is created by too much information.

 

[Hendy hawk]

It's good for some things, not for others. I think a lot of our misery is created by too much information.

Yep!!
And try to worry about things out of our control.