An art installation is on display at Gentle Monster's Multi-brand Space – Haus Nowhere Shanghai on March 20, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Wang Gang/VCG via Getty Images)
“The most serious health problem in the U.S. today is obesity.” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? But that pronouncement about obesity’s primacy in the hierarchy of national health problems is not new. Rather, it’s the opening line to a remarkable article published 60 years ago in LIFE magazine. This photographs made by Martha Holmes to illustrate that March 1954 article, titled “The Plague of Overweight.” Photo: Dorothy Bradley (left), photographed for LIFE magazine article on obesity, 1949. (Photo by Martha Holmes/Time & Life Pictures)
Britain's Princess Elizabeth clasps her hands in sympathy as Sergeant Jean Bayliss faints at her feet during an inspection of the guard of honour of the Women's Royal Army Corps at Shrewsbury Castle, Shropshire, on July 6, 1949. (Photo by AP Photo)
A woman poses with her tattoo during the Shanghai Tattoo Extreme & Body Art Expo 2017 in Shanghai, China September 2, 2017. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)
A 1949 Porsche 356 SL is displayed during the Porsche Rennsport Reunion V at Laguna Seca Raceway near Salinas, California, September 26, 2015. The three-day reunion is billed by organizers as the world's largest gathering of Porsche racecars, renowned drivers, and Porsche collector cars. (Photo by Michael Fiala/Reuters)
Sanne Vloet, Sui He, Lais Ribeiro, Taylor Hill, Romee Strijd and Megan Williams pose backstage during 2017 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show In Shanghai at Mercedes-Benz Arena on November 20, 2017 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
A woman wearing a Red Army uniform dances at the Bund at midnight on June 1, 2022 in Shanghai, China. Shanghai will fully restore the normal order of production and living starting from Wednesday. (Photo by Zheng Xianzhang/VCG via Getty Images)