Millions were made selling diet products. We never weighed ourselves, we always new that the waist line was our spy.
We were aware that our waist line is the first one to get out of shape and grow if we stopped exercising or over- ate for long period of times. Of course we had times when our cells retained more fluids, but we knew how to judge that bu pushing our thumb hard into our arms.
If it left an indentation or a white spot, we knew our waist was bigger because of water retention. I believe in our old days our ignorance was probably much wiser that to-days acquired knowledge. I wonder at times if common sense lost it's seat to book knowledge.
Book knowledge is only the point of view of the person who wrote the book. Sure we learn a lot by reading, but reading will never match thousand of years of lore transmitted from generation to generation.
In today's world every talks and no one listens. In yesterday's world few talked with knowledge and many listened and learned by the shared knowledge. Communication is worthless unless the communicator can have a good listening audience willing to learn and practice what they learned. Our educations started from home, was followed by the schools and by religion. Home, school and religion followed the same rules and they were all sacred and we grew in awe of all three of them.
All three thought the same values and we grew up with strict morals and respect for ourselves, our bodies, our properties and most of all respect for other, their feelings and their property.
A lot of communication goes on now, but values are not communicated. The essence of life is not communicated.
The respect is not communicated. We had freedom of respect, freedom of protecting ourselves, freedom of learning and teaching what we learned, freedom of practice what we learned. Our lives were full of precious little freedoms, the freedom that made us people and not subjects.
Seems to be a world wide opinion, see article on Londom Times, just in my page.

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3+ acres of fabulous property includes a southers style antebellum mansion. Property hosts a confederate historical monument.
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Owner partial financing. Less than 1.5 million.
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Downstares apartment one large kitchen, dining area, 1 bathroom, large den with fireplace.
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