Your thoughts on this, please?  I was born in1952.  In a catholic school and I remember taking breakfast and lunch to school.  We had our breakfast after the 7:30 am Mass. We had water before we left our home.  Then the fasting changed and by 1968, I remember eating breakfast  and an hour later Mass began.  

It crosses my mind for more specifics, details.  Who was behind the changes and were the reasons for change reasonable?

What also crosses my mind is what brings us to, or helps us to the "Real Presence of Our Lord."  For example: kneel, altar railings, bells that ring.  

I am reading  books on Fatima of 1986, that Christ was very offended and the bishops of Portugal, Spain and other religious communities were being lax.  So, I think, hm, is changing the fast from years ago apart of this laxity?

Oh, thank you for your reply.  I never heard of that!

That is all part of the changes.

Used to be fast after midnight, then 3 hours, then the NO had one hour, not sure but I don't think there is any fast anymore in the NO. I worked with a NOer who spoke of having breakfast at a restaurant with her priest before mass. 

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You do realize there is an entire forum on CathInfo with the same title as your thread?

https://www.cathinfo.com/crisis-in-the-church/

Probably right, I remember the fast too, and we would have three sips of water on return from Mass in honour of The Blessed Trinity, before we would eat breakfast, those were the days my friend...

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At my grammar school, run by Franciscan nuns, all 300 students would line up on Thursday once a month to go to Confession in waves of parochial school uniforms in motion. We all went, whether we needed to or not! Call it peer pressure. In a good way. 
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Then First Friday morning, we all showed up ready for Mass, and would process in double lines to the Church and file orderly into place in the pews. Nobody dared fool around. Nobody talked in Church. Nobody doodled or played with Fidget Spinners or cell phones. We didn't eve HAVE Fidget Spinners!
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When it was time for Mass we all used our missals and paid attention to everything, in silence. At Communion, we all processed in double lines on the two sides of the center aisle. The only flaw in our movements was that we kind of wobbled left to right. In a good way.
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When Mass was over, we all left in order and proceeded to school in straight, double lines. I remember years later reading the book Madeline, and being amused to see other people my age or younger who thought the way they processed in two straight lines was amusing, like they were happenby or something. Weird.
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Effectively, we did this every month, year after year, therefore the school generated several hundred children who had made their 9 First Saturdays several times by the time they finished the school.
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Some people fast; some don't.

Those who don't fast break wind during Mass ; even some priests.
Real loud toots too and smelly. 
Children are eating breakfast during Mass.  

I researched this a few months ago. Unfortunately, my docuмentation and references are on my old computer which is no longer accessible.  I was doing it for my own understanding so I did not worry about keeping that information.

The change from midnight to a three hour fast was made by Pope Pius XII.  The change was not made for the benefit of the faithful, but rather for the clergy.  In the past, priests really only said Mass on a Sunday in their home parish or where they happened to be on a Sunday.  Even if they said three Masses due to the numbers of faithful at the parish, he seldom traveled nor was it thought that most priests would be overly burdened in waiting to break their fast until after he said all of the Masses he was to say on any particular day.  With new transportation technology and larger Catholic populations during the early 20th Century, the pope noted that many priests, in order to fulfill the needs of the faithful, were having to say Mass at one parish and travel by train or automobile to another, and sometimes, to a third.  The pope came to realize that this was a risk to the health and safety to many priests and, so, he reduced the fast to three hours in order to allow priests, when needed, to take nourishment after a Mass even when he was to say a Mass later that day.  The pope clearly spelled out these reasons in the docuмent that established the three hour fast.  The change was made to apply universally since it would not be appropriate to make different fasting laws for clergy that did not apply to the faithful.

The docuмent that further changed the Eucharistic fast to one hour under "Pope" Montini appears in the Acts of the Apostolic See.  It is not a papal docuмent but, rather, is from one of the Vatican congregations and is unsigned.  It is very terse and simply states that the Eucharistic fast has been changed to one hour before the reception of Holy Communion and is made in response to requests made for pastoral reasons.  

We kept our fasts up to 1966 as I recall.

Very good memory.  I remember that we used to be very careful about not eating before Mass.  My mother didn't even drink coffee--and if she wasn't drinking coffee it had to be serious!  I don't know what other people did, but this continued until shortly after the new church building was opened in the early 1970s (not later than around 1973).  Soon after, our parish started the Saturday evening Mass at the order of the archbishop (I heard that our parish was the last one in the Seattle archdiocese to have a Saturday evening Mass).  When my parents decided to go to Saturday Mass one time for some reason, we started keeping only to the one hour fast because Mass wasn't until 7:00 pm.