It's the exercise, I think, more than the caloric intake. Meals on a working farm, for instance, are often *massive* compared with what we eat now, if not as varied. They have to be, to fuel the dawn-to-dusk physical work.
In my grandmother's day, a woman who spent her entire day sitting down, as I do, would have been called an invalid.
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Date: 2004-05-28 11:47 am (UTC)In my grandmother's day, a woman who spent her entire day sitting down, as I do, would have been called an invalid.