1974 SPECIAL REPORT: "BLACK NUTRITION AND COST OF FOOD"

Americans eat more chicken and less beef than they used to. They drink less milk - especially whole milk - and eat less ice cream, but they consume way more cheese. Their diets include less sugar than in prior decades but a lot more corn-derived sweeteners. And while the average American eats the equivalent of 1.2 gallons of yogurt a year, he or she also consumes 36 pounds of cooking oils - more than three times as much as in the early 1970s.
Americans’ eating habits, in short, are all over the place, at least according to our analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. Which is about what you’d expect, judging from the results of Pew Research Center’s recent survey on food and nutrition attitudes. In that survey, 54% of Americans said people in the U.S. pay more attention to eating healthy foods today compared with 20 years ago - the same percentage who said Americans’ actual eating habits are less healthy today than they were 20 years ago. And while 73% of Americans said they were very or fairly focused on healthy and nutritious eating, 58% said that most days they probably should be eating healthier.
So how do Americans really eat, and how has that changed over time? We analyzed data from the USDA’s Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System, or FADS, to find out. (Specifically, we used food availability adjusted for waste, spoilage and other loss as a proxy for consumption.) While the nation’s eating habits don’t change all that much from year to year, looking at them over 40 or more years shows some significant changes.
Broadly speaking, we eat a lot more than we used to: The average American consumed 2,481 calories a day in 2010, about 23% more than in 1970. That’s more than most adults need to maintain their current weight, according to the Mayo Clinic’s calorie calculator. (A 40-year-old man of average height and weight who’s moderately active, for instance, needs 2,400 calories; a 40-year-old woman with corresponding characteristics needs 1,850 calories.)
Nearly half of those calories come from just two food groups: flours and grains (581 calories, or 23.4%) and fats and oils (575, or 23.2%), up from a combined 37.3% in 1970. Meats, dairy and sweeteners provide smaller shares of our daily caloric intake than they did four decades ago; then again, so do fruits and vegetables (7.9% in 2010 versus 9.2% in 1970).

[@martinraynkelly4782]

I love how classy our people used to dress and act back then even though they were poor! Way different from today.

[@RS-dm4yo]

Hello

[@albrokenomoney2127]

Speech and grammar was way better back then. What I see is that cheap food dumbed us way down.

[@jamiyabennett4503]

The cheap education is the reason

[@moo3800]

Ignorance and stupidity became a norm for Blacks, how we know that because blacks were worth so much more back then we had more black owned businesses that were successful. Education was supreme we had Home Ec, coding classes, typing classes, and trade schools were a focal point. But then in the 80s sports became a career path, liquor stores were more prominent in black communities, gang banging became the new boys clubs, drug dealing especially after Scarface aired in movie theaters was the top career for ghetto stars these things we’re still there in the 70s but think about it doing for self and black owned was the thing in the 70s black love was alive and well, that over shadowed the black crime world until it couldn’t be overlooked anymore.

[@dachicagoan8185]

The defunding of public schooling has helped dumb down the people as well.

[@mauricedole5281]

Hip-hop has caused some serious damage to my people

[@RS-dm4yo]

No, what you're seeing is when something is produced by black people, we don't interview the most uneducated people to put on the screen. When it's produced by others, that's what you see.

[@melodynote333]

Bro, I learn so much from your videos. You got the best classic videos and folks don't even know this.

[@thereisonlyonewright3040]

I love the importance we used to put on food, pricing and nutrition. We need "Say Brother" now.

[@ohmeowzer1]

Well said thank you

[@408965]

Pop told me that back in the day wings were cheap and throw away part of chicken like necks backs and feet......Today they are the pieces you gonna pay the most for.

[@ohmeowzer1]

Exactly

[@chicbxbecerril6985]

This is a hidden gem👍🏻🙏🏽 I remember going to the supermarket with my mom with her food stamps😩🙏🏽 she barely got by

[@ohmeowzer1]

I enjoyed this video very much

[@Ritzy87]

🥺🥺🥺 that hurts hearing mom tried her best because good ol dad didn't help her. I've been to the food bank and that was really sad 😔

[@Ritzy87]

@@salvatoresalernatano5964 i was thinking about that too reading this comment.

[@tawnyh8878]

Me too 80s kid lol

[@LynnRedwine800]

I remember all of this. I was 17 years old in 1974. Just graduated, getting ready to enter college. I also remember the gas shortage in 1976. I remember lots of things prior to 1974 also. I am 67 years young now. I think I am VERY blessed to be a Boomer.

[@ninasky1322]

Omg thats awesome!! My parents are boomers as well ❤

[@KingNeutral1]

Can’t believe this was 47 yrs ago…supermarkets are one thing that haven’t changed!

[@bakerbaker454]

This very educational ! Thanks bro

[@Stephanie-qy3ud]

my mother was a single mother of 3. Im the oldest, she cooked us a hot plate every day. Never missed...I too do the same for my family. I know what they're eating and it makes me proud to provide that for them. My husband appreciates my food.

[@williamreesejr.4289]

Love your posts ' great work

[@ohmeowzer1]

I couldnt eat the spicy Ethiopian food not.appealing to me 🤢.... i do make a lot of soup and spaghetti, and casseroles.. I like black-eyed peas and rotisserie chicken and I make potato salad...i am an RN , and we are also orthodox Jewish..African American..my husband is working as a policeman and I am a nurse we have 6 kids,,,the prices are just gone back to the 70s.....flame me..but we did not vote Biden, and we won't next election either,,, I feel bad for the elderly who can not afford these prices.. Yes I agree cut out snacks sugar,,,we eat fruit for snacks...alot of good nutrition advice given,,I have twin girls age 10 and they eat celery and apples with peanut butter on it after school...anyway thank you for the wonderful channel I will send a donation,,,,Mazel Tov and many blessings to everyone...... ❤️❤️

[@MrTwonetwone]

If I was born back then I would of been groovy baby, and I would of called everyone a jive 🦃

[@chiefkitchiwaya6551]

Thank you for bringing this footage and letting the younger generation see that all food was organic then. The quality was much better and there was no GMO.

[@trangwuong7689]

Wrong. It was called systemics, or something like that, back to at least the fifties.

[@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736]

There is no GMO in countries such as South Africa and countries in Europe. That is strictly a American/Canadian thing. Possibly even Mexico.

[@thereisonlyonewright3040]

RIP Trouble T-Roy❤️

[@purplelove010]

This is exactly what's happening now.

[@ohmeowzer1]

Sure is...❤️

[@aniwayamuur6767]

damn .....today we bout face a so called food shortage too....get ready fam

[@ohmeowzer1]

Yes it's happening now...thank you Joe Biden

[@delma8937]

Thank the 12 families that really have control Biden just the puppet like Obama and every other president

[@NaturalBeauty214]

9:10 I'm jealous they had FULLY stocked grocery stores with multiple options to select from. Now there's hardly any food and the prices are through the roof. Not only that, it looked like they had larger bottles of bleach and the pasta boxes looked full to the top, unlike now.

[@evinkleinman6052]

Natural beauty, you are correct😁🐒

[@danielbostwick5601]

Love the rap music in the beginning. Now that's music!!!! Sounds awesome!!!

[@doca4374]

Dollar menu killed all of this, and made everyone fat?

[@SHARPEYE1]

Made you and your mother fat

[@tasham1673]

prices should go down but also education on healthy eating needs to be done too. Can't do one without other. I see alot of carts overflowing of mountain dew, Pepsi, cookies and cakes

[@purplelove010]

I looked Salem Hardy up & she still looks good. She doesn't look like she aged at all. She also owns a arts and crafts store called Salem's Ethiopia. She now goes by the name of Salem Kassahun.

[@ohmeowzer1]

Thank you so much..she seems like a nice sweet person ,..

[@SolitudeofaTiger]

I couldn’t find anything on Mrs.Harrison.

[@nicolaforrest6384]

My, my, how history repeats itself.

[@mauricedole5281]

Mrs. Jones is spitting game

[@purplelove010]

It definitely takes a long ass time to cook brown rice, I have to let mine boil for a good hour.

[@SolitudeofaTiger]

Its better for you and worth the wait. I stopped eating yt rice years ago. You have good content on your channel. I’m gonna check you out.

[@goldcherry103]

Try quinoa(the white kind). Less cook time and it's healthy too.

[@miarobinson847]

Damn she got 9 children

[@stephonwilliams5232]

I fucking know right

[@purplelove010]

It's not unusual a lot of our grandparents and great-grandparents had a lot of kids too.

[@teetot5276]

Women back then had a lot of children, my great granny had 16.

[@ohmeowzer1]

She seems like a sweet lady

[@DieselPurge]

@@stephonwilliams5232 😂😂😂

[@kincamell2]

Gratitude

[@victoriaespinoza1280]

16:15 That’s quite an outfit.

[@GarwinWayne]

That's when folks was emulating that Superfly culture

[@victoriaespinoza1280]

@@GarwinWayne I do like the hat.

[@KingJamesKingChaos]

Hi gorgeous ass woman

[@mamaneedsagrande]

Just watching and taking notes cause 2022 is killing me 😩

[@aniyas_wayy]

He was flirting heavy with the lady from Ethiopia lol she stayed professional though lol

[@danielbostwick5601]

Opening music is awesome,!!!!! Who is this??!!!

[@tawnyh8878]

It was Pete rock and CL smooth

[@tawnyh8878]

This documentary is so DOPE I was 3yrs old when this was aired

[@sandykandy9227]

Very smart lady 39:40 she gave some wonderful tips

[@barbaraobach]

The child who said cupcakes went up to 19 cents ,candy 15 cents..though- I know in Philly delicious pretzels were 10 cents each and even in the 90's they were still a dollar a rack- what are corporate thieves charging now for candy,$2-3 for garbage ?

[@tjbooker9948]

@16:10 Cooking lessons with Chef Pimp.

[@rachellewis6321]

Right

[@rachellewis6321]

I can't wait to taste your meal...😄😄

[@v.a.993]

Those little kids were knowledgeable about the cost of candy and cupcakes going up. lol. I remember in the late 70s when you get a whole bag of candy for $1 (included penny candies, packs of Now & Later, bubble gum etc). I guess in the late 60s that same bag of candy was only 50 cents. Dang. Inflation and ish.

[@grandkhanonizegypt]

yup, big bar of snickers 25 cents chik-o-sticks & charm suckers 😂

[@purplelove010]

Cecelia Jones just passed away this year unfortunately. I looked her up.

[@ohmeowzer1]

She seemed so nice..i liked her thank you

[@robertortiz8540]

I was 14 years old in 1974.

[@kingofthecatnap6246]

Same. Creating havoc.

[@robertortiz8540]

@@airjor1, Oh okay that was the Disco era for me.

[@delma8937]

I was probably teething

[@evinkleinman6052]

I was 9 years old in 1974

[@robertortiz8540]

@@evinkleinman6052, Oh okay.

[@cornellynch730]

How ironic. Look how high food is now

[@lightmarker3146]

Say Brother was on channel 2 the Boston public station, WGBH before PBS joined many public networks. It was on Sunday evenings. The shortage of food and the prices going sky-high was because of the gas shortage. People lost jobs when factories couldn't heat buildings for second and third shift . The oil shortage affected everything , from price of food to heating the home. Hamburger even had 25% hydrolyzed vegetable protein added because of meat shortages . Food Stamps had to be paid for not like free now. It was the hardest time and when biden got installed I knew it was going to be worse than the early 70s and that's going some to top the 70s. All this happened because we stopped pumping our own oil and bought it from OPEC . Carter insisted we would run out of American oil which wasn't true . We suffered for nothing and it will be worse with the current fraud biden.

[@bella_bella85]

Facts!!! Everything is an abundance here! They’re lying about everything and I’m so sick of it!! Atp ppl need to wake up. The quicker enough wake up the quicker all this shyt stop. We have more than enough in this rhealm

[@grandkhanonizegypt]

very informative , revised history coming soon 2024 style

[@kingofthecatnap6246]

Choice intro, Hezakya! I live on Chef Boy Ar U Kidding.

[@Ritzy87]

I notice that the chicken looks different. Looks better than the chicken back in the day.

[@astrobear5353]

i goes to grocery stores and the meats are very expensive nothing is cheap for 1 person the giving $250 for one person in texas it is not enough it can be gone before the end of the month

[@fabulous40sIV]

Aaah that T.R.O.Y. remix with this video. So perfect.

[@outside-x4y]

We well never get this generation back

[@jamiyabennett4503]

We still have stores that look exactly like this in 2022!!!

[@kernelcoleman8195]

The lady at 12:24 is definitely smart.

[@Yomamas824]

Damn the labels on those Spice Islands spices are still exactly the same?

[@iriereggaevibes1553]

2022 still the same..thanks politicians

[@Ritzy87]

Where do you find these old cooking shows

[@markhogarty7250]

These are great stories, the struggles are similar today

[@jchow5966]

“The price is going up on candy.

[@cassandramonique]

Unfortunately, this is happening again in 2024.

[@jchow5966]

Prices going up on candy.

[@stephonwilliams5232]

what the hell was this girl making someone please explain

[@stephonwilliams5232]

49:15

[@angelamack5300]

Whatever it is I'm not hungry.I respect other foods from different ethnic groups but it don't appeal to me.

[@angelamack5300]

@@airjor1 Yeah true.

[@goldcherry103]

Doro Wat Chicken(ethiopian spicy stew chicken)

[@lightmarker3146]

Looks like lentils .

[@stoneyhighhigh3677]

Now look in 2022

[@dynamitedingo7720]

Charlene Harrison is beautiful

[@bryansnyder9218]

Didnt know there was rap in '74

[@tawnyh8878]

Hopefully you’re being funny but this hip-hop songs from 1992 he just added it to the video