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And toilet time was included as "exercise"
One squat definitely counts as exercise.
I took a big exercise this morning
My fat*** should not have laughed as hard as I did
I believe the new guidelines actually include chores and cleaning. To be faaiir I laughed as well
Does that mean 25% of my neighbors don’t clean!?!? Ewwwwwwww…
Laughing also counts as exercise now.
To be faaaaaaairrrr.
After eating McDonald’s for three meals, you have to exert yourself pretty hard on the toilet.
If that counts as exercise, what do the other 25% do?
I’ll send you a video next time, it counts.
“I have a gym membership.”
“But do you ever go?”
“I will. I will… Maybe starting next week.”
Agreed. Both numbers seem low, per my last visit to Walmart.
Jerking off burns the calories bro.
Absolutely agreed. I’d say that figure hangs above 50%
Those 25% get around on mobility scooters?
25% seems a bit low thats for sure.
Completely agree!! I would guess closer to 50%
If anything this study shows that another 25-30% are liars.
Your guess is probably complexity wrong
Look man I train both my arms everyday as I masterbate, if that isn't exercise idk what is
You use both arms? Heathens
Probably included a 10k steps p/d metric.
Lol more like 80% don’t exercise
Honestly if you are talking about exercising even once a month it has to be around there
Depends on their job. I seek jobs that give me moderate exercise as I can’t stand the gym. I’m not overweight but had a bad diet
Oh absolutely agree. Americans who exercise? They must be getting paid to do it
It’s just a personal choice. I don’t enjoy office work and outside work has always given me a comfortable living. I sit around too much on my days off as it is.
Oh yeah I started working in an office a few years ago, started having really bad back problems from sitting at a desk and the lack of exercise. Serious daily pain and I’m positive it’s from a typical America sedentary lifestyle
Wait 75% actually exercise?! Lol
Haha right. I knew this article was trash when it thought that 75% of Americans exercise.
Not remotely surprised. Not sure if 10% of people I know eat well
Of course you're not Remotely surprised, gotta get back to that office so they can monitor your work in person.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that those between the ages of 18 and 64 engage in at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity every week. Only 22.9 percent of adults currently meet these guidelines, according to the new data released on June 28.
If one isn't working 60+ hours a week and is eating better than instant Ramen noodles (which may be a big ask here because late stage capitalism), that is a very low bar for weekly exercise. No wonder we are in such awful shape.
I think some day in the future, people will look back at this time as a time of widespread malnutrition, poor health, and illness. We’re used to it now, but it will be seen as uncivilized some day.
Uhh… duh? The country has had an obesity epidemic for near 2 decades. This is what happen when people work too much and sugar is subsidized.
There’s sugar in everything in the US. Try and eat sugar free, it’s pretty hard. I’ve found raw chicken that had sugar as a goddamn addictive once!
East Asians work way way more than Americans (think japanese, Chinese, south Koreans, etc) and are generally A LOT less overweight
The portions are bonkers in the US and food is so fat, so much cheese, sauces/dressing, deep fried, bread baskets etc...
Surprisingly, I find east Asians eat way sweeter (ever try vita Lemon tea? Or Malaysian kopi, even bbt is really sweet) and snack a lot too. But they move so much (much more transit and walking, not car dependent) and portions are like less than half of American places generally.
There is a ton of cultural differences that pressure Asians to be thin. Koreans especially have a culture of fat-shaming. In America there is very little culturally that prevent obesity.
While that may or may not be true, you can’t convince Americans to do anything. You can’t bully them into submission or convince them to do the smart thing. The best chance we have is our government making sly changes that positively benefit people and eliminate the reasons behind obesity in America. Those being low wages, poor education, no free time and no incentive or help to exercise. But this is also unrealistic because it involves our government doing a single damn good thing or a modicum of brain power.
If it’s too expensive to be healthy and people don’t have the time for it, they’re not going to be.
if the best chance the US has is to rely on the government- woo buddy...
If it’s too expensive to be healthy and people don’t have the time for it, they’re not going to be.
And when you explain it, there's always someone to contradict you and shift the blame from corporations/governments towards the individuals, even if they have little power over policies.
Because you’re blaming the government for adults not wanting to do moderate exercise a few times a week, cut back on soda, and eat their veggies.
I'm blaming the government and corporations for low incomes and long workweeks that prevent adults from exercising and eating healthy. When you're exhausted, you cannot exercise or cook.
People in the US resist denser zoning and bike lanes. It's going to be a long time before government can make those sly changes. Hell, fat Americans will actually attack cyclists with their trucks and SUVs.
We’re shameless people
Shall we start fat-shaming too?
Yes
thanks Lizzo and Lizzo fans
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The website does not link to the data for USDA. They link to this sheet which links to https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/app/index.html#/app/home. That's not really a source. The USDA site provides various reports and the ability to query the raw data but your original link does not tell us what query to run or which report to view.
I'm guessing this is referring to "Sugar, Centrifugal." But that still doesn't refute OP since there are other sources of sweetness in Asian foods besides refined sugar.
Sorry grandpa but iaf time for bed. Are you still claiming fat while pretending sugar is not the culprit? Have you not read a single article (much less report) on sugar vs fat the last decade or two?
Sugar is dangerous, not only doe sit spike your insulin and boost your heart rate, it'll also be stored as fat due to the excess calories your body can't burn. Also, fat makes you full while sugar gives no sense of fulfillment hence you eat more. Last but not least sugar is addictive. So no, Asian food is not sugary...not compared to normal American cuisine
agreed, but don't the east Asians, in particular Japanese, have a high suicide rate from being over-worked?
More like 25% do. Have you looked around? Everybody is overweight
People who exercise can be overweight. Exercising doesn't really matter if you're still consuming loads of unhealthy foods.
Exercising doesn't really matter if you're still consuming loads of unhealthy foods.
So much this, you'll never lose weight if you don't change your eating habits. (Unless of course you're legit working out hardcore all the time and getting enough rest) One of my siblings is obese and trying to get this through their head for the last 10 years is just impossible.
Then they complain that they can't lose weight because working out causes their "Insert weight based problem" to flair up.
True. But, if you are exercising vigorously, regularly, it's going to be, by default, lower. You would be LESS overweight than if you hadn't, even if your diet is garbage. It's a lifestyle change, as has been said soooooo many times, but it's true. If you are making choices to be more active, and stay with it, you may also find that your making better choices in your food consumption. Less of it, better quality, so on.
Also, the thing is if you are exercising vigorously for 75 minutes, research says that you will eventually start working on your diet. It may take a year or 2 to get there but if you are consistently exercising, that becomes the natural progression.
If I wanted to lose weight and just exercised and haven't seen results that I wanted, what's the next thing I could work on to lose weight? The problem is that most people end up quitting the exercise before they change their diets
Not around here. The meth keeps them slim.
I like them slim. But I also like teeth
No gumjobs for you?
That's because we are a car-centered society. If you go to places in the US where walking and biking is more feasible, you find that people are generally not as obese. But of course, weight is not the only metric of health and diet.
Meal portion size is absurdly large here too. It’s crazy. I eat one meal + a small snack everyday and am active during work. People eat wayy too much and don’t work out nearly enough or any at all.
Interesting, and then yet we keep saying it's all personal choices to make poor diet decisions and so on. Obviously this is a social/public health issue as well.
During a lot of the pandemic I didn't have to go into work and took a bunch of time off. I had time to make healthy meals for myself, work out everyday. I lost 30 lb. Now that I'm back to working full time it's impossible. I just don't have the physical or emotional energy to get everything done I need to do in a day and still eat healthy and tasty food and work out.
This is all too common in America. We need a 32-hour work week without a decrease in annual pay. We have a labor shortage, and the labor we do have is over worked and over stressed. We need the current labor to be healthier in able to be produce and not break the system more than it’s already broken.
The rest of the world works 35-40 hrs without getting excessively fat. It's not just the work week. It's also poor urban design and poor diet.
With a Macdonalds around every three meters, it’s unpossible!
Most adults have a schedule that looks like this:
- 8am - 5pm: Work
- 5pm - 6pm: Dinner
- 6pm - 11pm: Whatever else you need to do.
- 11pm - 7am: Sleep.
Five hours. That's it. Five hours of your day to do things that don't include work, eat, and sleep. Chores, hobbies, family, relaxation, they get five hours.
Is anyone really shocked that people can't fit exercise into that window? Instead of criticizing people for not exercising, maybe we should ask why workplaces have gotten so much more efficient over the last 75 years, but we're still stuck working 40 hours per week.
Don’t forget commuting time for most Americans!
This is huge. I used to have between a 40 min and 1:30 commute each way, depending on traffic and weather. 8 hour work day (one hour non paid lunch) is at a minimum 11 hours. If I get 8 hours of sleep, that leaves me with 5 hours of free time every day. And then there is cooking, cleaning, picking up kids, after school activities, iDK how anyone does it. That's absurd. I had a big life change, and I moved closer to my place of work. I commute by foot most days now, and that's 2 miles of walking. So I get more time back and exercise simultaneously.
It's the biggest part of why Americans don't get exercise. Always have to drive. Everywhere.
I had to go to part time even though having a kid can be expensive. It was killing me. Demands from work, keeping up with chores at home, and keeping my child alive. It’s been about a year now and I do not regret changing my schedule. Part time is way more sustainable than full time, which was a situation where I would have just quit altogether.
40? *Cries in Mandatory OT*
Right? Most people I know work way more than 40hr a week, doesn’t matter if blue collar or white collar. Only folks I know with government jobs work 40.
I probably should have put 8am - 5pm*.
I work 32hrs at my government job, still get full benefits, and it had an absurd effect on my physical and mental well being.
The average worker in the US works under 34 hours/week
https://clockify.me/working-hours
That's for people who work. Factor in all those adults of working age who don't work and it gets much lower
You forgot the commute which has also gotten worse for most people
A poor choice made by a lot of people who prioritize having more space than a shorter commute.
Made worse by terrible urban design that is very much supported by mainstream America.
Often I think it’s not so much of a choice. I would absolutely give up a great deal of space to live closer, but it rarely ever scales appropriately with price
There’s a river near me. On one side, cheap apartments and inconvenient train access. On the other side, dense building and easy train access.
Literally cost less to get a 2 bedroom on my side of the river than a studio on the “convenient” side
I agree that some of it is terrible urban design. But how many Americans do you know who would ever choose to centre their home purchase around a shorter and more active commute? Heck, there's a literally a phrase for this in Canada and the US: "Drive till you qualify."
100% agree with how bad this is. We need a 28/32 hour work week without a decrease in annual pay. Four days is more than enough to get most work done, and studies have shown that working past a 7th hour has a major drop in productivity. Also, we have a labor shortage. We need to keep our current labor healthy, happy, and productive rather than overworking and over stressing the major components have an already taxed system.
It's part of why our health care system is so expensive. The US is incredibly good at masking over problems and letting them fester until later on and then just obscuring the actual cost. See: struggling kids in school that fall through the system and then everyone goes "how did we miss the signs?!" when they rob a bunch of houses to get money for drugs and end up in prison, costing taxpayers thousands of dollars per year for the rest of their life.
A labor shortage isn't necessarily a bad thing for labor. Over time it should have upward pressure on wages and benefits.
The rest of the world isn't all that much different. They put in similar or more working hours. What the rest of the world has are walkable cities where walking and biking is much higher, so physical activity is incurred as part of their daily routine. No need to go to a gym. They also eat healthier food, making it unlikely to accumulate too many excess calories.
Their time off comes in the form of more long weekends and vacation days.
Exactly. The US has developed into a workaholic, car-centric culture where precious little time is left and thus we are encouraged to consume cheap/fast meals that are poisoning us. A few people in this thread are arguing with me that you don't have to live like that...and sure, you can fight against the system, but for most people, it's easier to just go with the flow.
Yes and no. Sure the US has poor balance. The American system is harder on health. But so many people act like their own tastes and preferences aren't exacerbating the problem. There is some choice in that framework. If you choose to maximize space for your housing dollar instead of minimizing your commute, that's a choice. If you refuse to meal prep on the weekends, that's a choice. Etc.
It's kinda hard to feel sorry for people who move far out into the burbs to get the biggest house they can, buy an F150 and then complain it's sooooo hard because they have to drive everywhere. Also, in my experience these are also the same folks who oppose investments in public and active transport infrastructure and bitch about cyclists inconveniencing them.
I agree. Especially with the meal prepping part. To be fair, if you're low income, you're most likely holding more than one job, so it does become harder. Those are the only people who have any excuse. Even then, I know of amazing stories of people from the ghetto who became bodybuilders despite their environment. Hell, I've seen people from poor countries in Africa who are bodybuilders. Seriously, wtf?
The fact of the matter is that most Americans don't prioritize health. It's seriously a matter of priorities. If someone poorer and a lot more disadvantaged in life than you can do amazing things with their bodies, you have absolutely zero excuse for not doing it. You don't even have to eat "perfectly", you can eat like shit 50% of the time and make gains.
Won’t matter. My employer gave people an hour off work and they didn’t exercise.
If you want, you’ll exercise.
I’m not saying you’re wrong per se, but I think the original comment was that there is a complete lack of time to do what an average person needs to do, assuming even the minimum amount of time for work, sleep and eating. Adding one hour of non work wouldn’t necessarily negate that statement.
Still, I agree that even if people were given the ability to exercise (let’s say there was literally nothing else they could do but exercise for one hour a day), most might still not.
Part of the problem imo is that exercise as a pure voluntary will never work. Healthier cultures are healthier because they're structurally enabling for more active lifestyles.. such as biking and walking everywhere.
In the US/Canada, cities are built to be as bicycle/walking unfriendly as possible. If I could take a nice foot path down to the grocery store and back, without crossing big intersections near speeding cars, I 100% would. But I can't. So I drive. And that's a loss of exercise. Multiply this for everything.
5 hours where they are extremely exhausted*
The average for “work” is probably closer to like 5am-6pm when you factor in shit like getting ready and commute. It’s not “working” but it’s something you kinda need to do because of work
I negotiated a 4 8 hour day schedule in lieu of a raise last review. Still making good money just want more free time.
Less even. Most people are commuting from 5-6pm.
Spot on reasoning. And you are being generous with your numbers.
Commuting to work is also a big chunk of that 5 hours of free time too.
My only argument is how a lot of people use "time" as an excuse. Motivation, disabilities, pain management, energy levels, etc... Yeah totally. I get that and it becomes more of a problem the older you get.
But sorry, if you're spending hours gaming/binge watching stuff and you're saying you lack the time, meh. Cardio takes up the most time but you can at least do some stretches/yoga and some light body/weightlifting while you catch up on your podcast/show or in-between deaths in your game.
And obviously, there are people working multiple jobs, and/or, with school that their time is really super limited so I'm not trying to say EVERYONE can adhere to this...
But we all know these people who have every excuse in the world but can't take out even 10 minutes to do a workout while they watch something. Once again, goes back to motivation and such.
I'm just saying, at our obesity rates in the US, there's a lot of people who have more excuses to avoid doing what they know they should be doing than people who actually can't find time to work out.
What about people with families, which is the majority of adults? You're basically down to:
- Exercise to be healthy.
- Spend time with your children at night.
Pick one.
Go for a walk with your family.
I hear this.
Used to work out at least 5 days a week around 1-1/2 - 2hrs. Have a 7-month-old now and I've been struggling to keep up. Definitely lost some muscle tone and it makes me sad.
Now I try and wake up at 5am to make it happen...Definitely not ideal though!
This is where I sound like a boomer about incorporating physical exercise with kids.. Grew up poor in both rural and inner city areas. If you can't figure out physical activities to spend time with your kids outside in rural life that's just laziness.
City life is harder. Definitely. We didn't have grass, anywhere near us. Games like soccer and grass were unfortunately played in parking lots when available. But play with your kids in sidewalk games and warm up exercises. And like lots of city folk, walk. Walk your kids to the destination instead of taking public transit or your vehicle if you have one.
Like it sounds so dumb but kids like being active once you get them away from the screens. Try and keep up with a kid, it'll get the heart moving.
3:exercise as a family and make exercise a bonding experience
Be active with your kids, teach them healthy habits. Look at that, I found a creative solution to your false dichotomy and it took me what, 10 seconds?
Cool. brb, going out to play with the kids at 7pm when it's pitch-black out and 4° fahrenheit. Thanks for your amazing life tips, do you have a blog I can subscribe to?
This thread is about getting adults exercising. And specifically about not having "time" to exercise as an adult. There are subs like /r/bodyweightfitness and I'm sure plenty of "prison fitness" type of programs for who don't want to spend money to exercise at home.
I'm just saying, at our obesity rates in the US, there's a lot of people who have more excuses to avoid doing what they know they should be doing than people who actually can't find time to work out.
That's more calories in vs calories out. Its not even access to healthy food. Would it help? Sure. But Americans aren't quick to eat simple small meals. Its constant over eating and part of that is culture the other part is the fact it so much food in everything you get.
Also I don't know about everyone else, but my health classes in HS were garbage.
I agree completely with you on the exercise thing though. Most people just make excuses. It won't kill you to take 45 minutes every other day to be active.
I work a 12 hour day at my job, I’m in school full time, and for a hot minute I had a side job as a trainer with no days off. I worked out at least an hour every day. Time is never a good excuse.
It takes 15 minutes!! Also, maintaining a healthy weight is like 99% diet and 1% exercise. It’s all about healthy foods and calorie intake.
I work over 14 hours a day every day that I'm on shift, and I still fit in 30 - 45 minutes in the gym per day. Not defending the amount of time that people have to work to survive, but saying that you don't have time to exercise each day is definitely a stretch. Most people spend at least a half hour watching tv or playing on their phone every night that could be spent exercising.
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There's a lot of variables. But on average, the most overweight nation, there's obviously an issue, and it's not all someone else's fault.
If that half and hour is taking the place of exercise then it's absolutely contributing. It may not be fair but it's reality.
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Trading exercise for screen time absolutely does not help one’s mental health.
Daily light to moderate exercise is one of the cheapest, easiest, and most powerful thing one can do to help their mental health. Human bodies evolved to be active. Our brains are part of those bodies. They function best with physical activity.
Damn, I don’t even remember what it was like to have 5 hours of free time on a work day
I also lose 2 hours a day since my commute is 1 hour :(
Do they teleport form work to home at 17h?
Well said!
You are absolutely right, we need more pay for our labor and less time doing it to help people exercise and spend time planning better meals. r/antiwork r/MayDayStrike
I think 5 hours is enough time to fit in 30 mins and an hour for exercise tbh.
Hobbies and relaxation is 2 hours.
Chores is 1-2 hours not including cooking and that's probably a very high estimate. You can leave some of your chores to do on a holiday.
That leaves more than 1 hour free for exercise.
Family time overlaps with hobbies and relaxation and dinner time. You don't need to set a specific amount of time purely for family time every day. Also again, you can make up that time on a holiday
Edit: I just asked a couple of my coworkers and even they agreed that 5 hours is enough time to put in daily exercise into their schedule so it isn't just me.
Wow I’m in two statistics today!
That exercise thing has to be backwards, 25% do exercise.
Fuck… 75% of you exercise?
They may count walking on your 15 minute break exercise
Notice how nowhere in this article does it mention meat as “healthy.” All fruits and vegetables. You can tell what the problem is here from a diet perspective.
Not me! Eat great, work out everyday. Still ugly.
Most people everywhere are lazy and have no motivation to better themselves in anyway and are content with mediocrity. Anything worth having takes work and that includes your health .
And here I am eating well AND exercising and my body is still treating me like shit fml lmao
There is zero fuckingchance that 75% ofAmericans excercise
I was at Disney world recently, yes it was miserable and I hated every second but I have young nieces and nephews so I did the good uncle thing. It was like a parade of overweight to morbidity obese people driving around on electric scooters. If this is a cross section of the US there is no way, no way 75% of the population exercises. I whole heartedly agree with the poor diet. I didn’t eat much there because I don’t like paying $20 for a burger.
I read that at first as 25% do exercise. That number would have been way too high. I’d wager it’s more like 95% eat like shit and don’t move their asses at all. For the record I absolutely am part of the 95% here
25% seem low. It must be over 30%. We are fat because life no longer requires much movement.
25% don’t exercise? Try 60%
I guess walking is also categorized as exercise
A huge proportion of people have jobs that are considered exercise
At least
Coming from a 6' - 170 lb. Dude... It's way more than %25. We Americans are way too fat and don't nearly exercise enough, we write the book on heart problems, plus we're too gluttonous with food. People don't monitor caloric intake and portions at all. We just eat till we can't anymore, then scratch our heads and wonder why we can't look down and see our own manhood/womanhood without the aid of a mirror in front of us...
All the more reason why this past two years should serve to reduce the number of restaurants, and low paid labor. People dine out, far too often. They consume too many calories of low quality, when they do. Our food service industry is too large, even for 300MM people. Meanwhile, the damage not only done to your waistline and your arteries, shows up in our bank accounts as well, as dining out nearly always costs more than eating from home. Even with heavy increases on the grocery bill, it turns out less.
It's about time for some balance to re-emerge.
US food is so loaded with sodium and sugar the deck is stacked against us. Also the emphasis on eating so much meat. Thank god I went plant-based a few years ago.
Exercise would be easier if I didn’t have to work 8 hours a day of my life away
The problem lies in the fact that for most middle class and lower Americans, Fast food filled with carbs and fats, is much cheaper than the cost of a healthy salad. And comfortable homes, means less exercise.
Anyone who goes to a grocery store knows fruits and vegetables are cheap. Fast food is more expensive on a per meal basis. Per calorie there is a large discrepancy due to the difference in calories per weight of food from the two sources. I can go buy a bag of salad, cucumber, bell pepper, dressing, etc for less than $10 and have 3 meals from it. 3 fast food meals will cost me far for more than $10
I think people who say "healthy food is expensive" aren't talking about healthy food they prepare themselves. They're comparing the price of fast food to the price of a salad they would get at a restaurant.
This. It isn’t fair to compare prepared fast food to salad you make at home. If eating out, the healthy meals are often more expensive. If eating at home and you make your own “meal” out of government subsidized corn syrup, wheat, and soy products, again the healthy food is more expensive.
3 meals from a salad, absolutely chatting out the ass
3 meals from like a 1.5 kilo bag of mixed greens you can get at the store, yeah.
312g of baby spinach (size of box of organic baby spinach from Costco) is easily enough for 3 meals.
I add in half a tomato, half avocado, a bit of feta , and if I have berries or apple I add it in as well. Sometime I'll add in couple strips of turkey bacon and home made dressing of Dijon , apple cider vinegar and olive oil.
If working a desk job, that's enough... especially with breakfast or afternoon snack of some 2% Greek yogurt and a fruit
Fast food filled with carbs and fats, is much cheaper than the cost of a healthy salad.
Great, that means you can eat a smaller amount of calorie-dense food for cheaper. But you wont. You'll eat the same amount of calorie rich food as you will lighter fare, and then cry foul. Use the tools that have been given you. Eat a happy meal.
Thus proving yet again I'm smarter than 115% of you😳
When you have poor diet you don’t shit often so you start getting more toxic every time
More like 25% do exercise.
And only 25% exercise*
Okay, very misleading - a poor diet is defined as missing any of the parts of the food pyramid, but that’s not necessarily a poor diet- you can note at fruits, but eat a lot of veggies and have a good diet.
2nd - 25 % don’t exercise outside of work activity. Well, if you’re a construction worker, You can be fit without going to the gym. Many people do physical labor.
Not saying America is a healthy country, just that this isn’t a very good description of how and why it’s not
Merica 🇺🇸
Good, now leave us alone 🤣🥃🔥
No one uses the gym. That's all I know.
How many are obese? Morbidly?
I’m pretty sure Covid is taking a lot of those people out. This number will be lower by the end of this “pandemic”
0% are shocked
Yeah. You know how cheap noodles, hamburger meat, and cheese are? Cheap enough to be the main parts of a diet. Know how expensive salads, veggies, and greens are? Not that expensive until you realize you need about 4 bags of whatever to actually feed 2-3 people.
My dad has major health issues. He doesn't eat vegetables and literally does not drink water because he says it's "boring". A 60 year old man...
A good diet (often) requires time or money. You can either nuke a hot pocket, eat a cheeseburger, or spend, at a minimum, 30 minutes cooking and another 10 minutes cleaning up. 40 minutes a day per meal (at a minimum) adds up.
Sure, there are healthy meals that require less time and money, but not a whole lot. A person can only stand so many salads.
Damn...i misread this. I would think its only 25% that do exercise
I would bet that you are right.
Grocery stores should mark down the food that’s going to expire to half price before it expires instead of throwing it in the trash. And why do they lock the trash, so evil
Why is this not more reported? Between obesity and covid, this study.. Why hasn't any politician not got in front of a camera. Regardless of party
If I had more time it’s be easier.
Why is this in r/economy?
Perhaps because it's a factor in why the US spends so much money on health care with such mediocre results
It completely is. Healthcare starts with selfcare.
There's a lot of conversation about even if the US employs universal healthcare the cost will never drop below other competing nations. Even if they are able to collectively negotiate lower prices with the healthcare industry strictly because the population is so unhealthy the spending vs GDP will still be higher.
Allegations of personal responsibility for societal shortcomings is not allowed on Reddit.
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Lol nope. We can afford it, it’s just not an effective policy for winning political campaigns.
There's really no excuse for this. Eating healthy is cheaper and more enjoyable than eating junk food if you just get a cookbook for 8 bucks, and a daily walk or light excersise routine should be part of everyone's day.
Sadly, eating healthier isn’t cheaper here. There are “food deserts”-where all you can buy in the shops is processed food.
Yeah, I know. Fuck. It's just hard to change.
Just start with little things and let them add up. For me not drinking as often has led to increased energy levels, so now I’m getting to work on time cause I’m not waking up sluggish. I have an appetite again so I started eating healthy meals and suddenly exercise is feeling like a great idea because it’s fueled by eating healthy and not being hungover all the time. Be patient with yourself as you take the steps, celebrate the small victories including getting back on track the times you slip a little. Just some things that work well for me and I wish you the best
But people don’t know what’s a good diet. Too many options - follow the US gov guideline of 7-11 servings of carb and fear fat? Low-carb, high-fat?
Then, people don’t even know the medicinal properties of simple food. So, food has just become something to fill your stomach.
Knowledge of nutrition is key
https://worldaffairs.blog/2022/01/21/life-hack-how-i-have-avoided-flu-and-cold-for-12-years/
You’re really taking “medical” nutrition advice from an anti-vaxxer? What a shit article.
Edit: they recommend cumin seeds and tea for Covid lmao
What the hell I get deleted for economic comments and people post food crap? Who run this Reddit?
Having a job and raising a child, finding time to exercise is a luxury …
Later this year, I’m allowing my personal training certify to expire due to a lack of clients. I’ve watched the government and fear porn media drive the mental health of people I trained into the ground. Folks have simply given up.
The way they determined poor diet was centered around fruit and vegetable consumption. The problem isn’t necessarily that people don’t want to be healthy, but vegetables, and especially fruit, are exorbitantly expensive compared to most other foods
It’s my body, I can do what I like with it.
Just costs alot of society
Well lets also add the fact to eat healthy is fucking expensive for people who do not know how to start or have a big family. Besides, as a 23M, I know so many people who eat shit and make up for it with supplements. So due to ignorance and bills. While COVID has really ruined the ability for a lot of people to exercise or even the will to exercise. But of course, this is a trend starting long before I was born
I call bullshit on every concept I can glean from your atrocious prose.
Chicken on salad for 2 people is $10
You can't eat a pile McDonald's and make up for it with supplements
You can go outside and walk in the middle of our current Plague and not be exposed.
I claimed ignorance for people who don't grow up well and if you're working a 9-5 with children you aren't interested in going for a walk. And I know plenty of people who do eat a shit ton of McDonalds and take supplements. This is all from my own personal eyes and have witnessed. Just because you can not fathom it doesn't mean it's not true
Ese’ you see I eat Ze fruits mang, I don’t need no stinkin’ rexercises.
To get to 25%, the study must have been incredibly loose in its definition of exercise. My guess they included walking to the fridge.