What happened to fat people in the war? (serious question)?

Question

apart from Winston Churchill. Because when you look through archive footage and photos from the world wars, every man, woman, soldier and child is thin! were fat people not invented back then or something? or is it just propaganda advertising where each country is like 'how can we lose when we are all so healthy!?'

Answer 1

the only two fat people in america during world war 2 were dropped on japan

Answer 2

there wasn't much junk food and they had rations back then

Answer 3

Dropped on the enemy that's what. There was not enough food to get fat on anyway.

Answer 4

most people were eating rationed food so i'm guessing a lot of people lost weight....

Answer 5

I doubt that genuine fat people were two a penny like now.For a start there was no well fare state so if you didnt work you didnt eat.We're pampered,over indulged in this day and age.We're lazy,unwilling to accept responsibilty,soft,in general compared to people 60 years ago.

Course they're were fat people but no where like the amount now,they would've been the ones peeling the tatties or mopping the toilets,behind the scenes !!!

Answer 6

People were not that rich back then and there wasn't any junk food,at least not in Britain.We were not so influenced by america then.

Answer 7

I would think junk food wasn't as "big" as it was back then. or maybe they were to busy eating to fight

Answer 8

They become chefs  

Answer 9

The current levels of obesity are very recent and have only started rising rapidly in the last twenty years or so.  When I was at school there were only two fat kids in the entire school - how many now?

Answer 10

Fat people eat too much on the battlefield and make a huge target for bullets

Answer 11

um its cuz they dont let fat people into the army cuz they will get killed and are too unhealthy. most fat people carry some problem like diabetes of some type, a heart disease, a liver or kidney problem. being fat literally kills your system.

Answer 12

Well they didnt let fat people in the Army, therefore they didnt make it into war films. If someone was a little chubby that changed in basic training.

Answer 13

There was so little food that it'd be a challenge to be fat back in those days.

Aside from that, no video games or tv's etc. so excercise was your fun, be it playing outside with friends or going out on your bike.

Answer 14

they fight you idiot

Answer 15

Because most of the good food was being sent to the service people. those at home had to get by on rations or starve.

My husbands family was living in Budapest during the war years. Cities were not the best places back then.

my mother-in-law was a 22 year old mom at the time with her husband fighting near the Russian front.

She  spent 2 years either hiding out in her small apt. or down in the celler during the bombing of Budapest.

they were invaded by Germans, Russians and Americans.

No "decent" young women was seen on the streets. The old women and men would look around for food. Whenever  a bomb would kill a horse or other animal,people would run out from the buildings with knives and cut them to pieces for something to eat besides just flour and caraway soup.

The citizens of these countries looked as bad as the POW's at the end of the war.

There were many children that starved to death in the cellers, one was a new born down in my mom-in-laws celler. Even she tried to breastfeed the baby because the mother was so thin she had no milk for her baby.

I think those in the eastern countries had it much harder then in the west.