How common were eating disorders amongst teenage girls in the early 1900s?
I don’t think the word common would fit a disorder or disease but it was extensive with young girls trying to maintain that slender look and for others obesity became apparent with the choice of foods and the lack of exercise. Great effort to reduce spread into the middle age individual as well as senior citizens. The teenage girl seemed more purposed in staying slim until she either became sick or the opposite….over indulged into snack and junk foods and adopted the whole-hearted saying, “I am what I am, love it, like it or leave it.” The last words of some one who has tired out on the trail of the “perfect body”…..This is so in the later part of the 1900’s…. People back in the early time period of the 1900’s were more reluctant to waste as we are today and many families sit down at the table with the understanding, “waste not…want not”. In other words don’t take out more than you can eat…it was with many that they did not leave anything served on their dinner plate. In othe
