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> But modern life doesn't need much in the way of actual physical labour. Ha! Come work my job. Did you ever wonder how houses were built, or how shelves are s
by electromagnetic 17y ago
> But modern life doesn't need much in the way of actual physical labour.
Ha! Come work my job. Did you ever wonder how houses were built, or how shelves are stocked in supermarkets, or how trucks are loaded . . . just because you work in a cubicle doesn't mean everyone in the western world does. Despite a recession, the construction sector in the majority of the world is still rapidly growing, in parts it stayed well within the double figures.
BTW BMI in its present form and fitness have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. It was designed to study muscle development amongst soldiers, and more over it was designed to show muscle development on an individual basis over military training. IE where they started vs where they ended. In its original iteration it had nothing in it whatsoever to do with measuring obesity, because it was literally the heavier the better.
- barrkel 17y agoI stand by my statement: in the days of farming, easily 90% or more of the population was doing hard physical labour. (And I don't work in a cubicle. Actually, I work from home.) And BMI was just a useful shorthand to indicate that I wasn't e.g. overweight or obese (or a musclebound athlete).