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Really? Maybe my local experience is an outlier but I've seen significantly more people cooking meals at home and exercising. The number of daily runners in my
by meritt 6y ago
Really? Maybe my local experience is an outlier but I've seen significantly more people cooking meals at home and exercising. The number of daily runners in my neighborhood has easily increased 10x. Are gluttony and sedentary lifestyles not the major contributors for type-2 diabetes and heart disease?
- lazyasciiart 6y agoHas the number of runners increased more than the number of people going to gyms/sports leagues/swimming pools has dropped?
- bobthepanda 6y agoAlso, are the people running new runners, or people who would otherwise be going to gyms?
- dehrmann 6y agoI've had a similar experience, though I have no idea if the runners I'm seeing makes up for less activity throughout the day, gyms being closed, etc. It's possible that the 4% of people who go to the gym regularly are now running outside, and everyone else is even less active. Also, heart disease and type-2 diabetes are years in the making, and a month of moderate exercise and better eating won't make up for it overnight. Not to mention added stress.
- arcticbull 6y agoTakes 21 days to form a new habit, so there's every chance they'll continue!
- watwut 6y agoNo, there is not. When the circumstances change, habits change too. When people go back to work, they will have less time at their hands. They will have to adjust to commuting again, taking kids to/from school again, being somewhere at time again. All of that will cut into their exercise time. All the people who are exercising out of boredom now will stop exercising out of being tired of doing lot of things again.
- chrisweekly 6y agoIt's far from given that a return to pre-outbreak commuting patterns will be the norm.
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- dragonwriter 6y ago> The number of daily runners in my neighborhood has easily increased 10x. Those are probably largely people that probably did just as much activity somewhere other than their home neighborhood (physical-but-nonessential labor, gym, athletic hobbies that rely on now-closed businesses, etc.)
- _bxg1 6y agoI went running the other day for the first time in over a year, just as a way of getting fresh air. And before that I'd already lost 8 pounds since quarantine started, just because I haven't been eating restaurant-portions.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoCongratulations! Keep it up!