I knew the answer before I opened the article. They move a lot more and generally have a better diet and therefore obesity rates are much lower. I say generally

I knew the answer before I opened the article. They move a lot more and generally have a better diet and therefore obesity rates are much lower. I say generally a better diet because some Amish communities have high rates of malnutrition among children, however this is not by any means universal. Americans would probably have an average life expectancy of 85 if obesity rates weren’t so high.