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Young adults spend more time sitting around on their computer and eating junk food. No shock heart attacks are rising. With hotter climates I expect this trend

Young adults spend more time sitting around on their computer and eating junk food. No shock heart attacks are rising. With hotter climates I expect this trend to continue as going outside becomes less palatable. No shock smart phones and generally accessible computers came with the dawn of the millennium and that's when things started to get bad.

CalRobert 3y ago
We also made it extremely difficult to use your muscles as your main mode of transport (be that walking, cycling, etc.)
- endisneigh 3y ago
  though I don't disagree, I don't see this as being the main cause as it's not any more difficult now than it was say in 1980.
  - ethanbond 3y ago
    Yes it is. In the 80s if you were bored, the solution was to go play with your friends, go run around in the creek, etc. People weren't in better shape because they had ironclad discipline. Contrast to now: You're bored? Welp just sit right here on your ass and there is a literally bottomless bucket of entertainment that frankly is a lot more immediately satisfying than most of the stuff outside your house. And if you dare venture outside your house? Make sure you bring your parents because, increasingly often in the US, they can get arrested for child endangerment.
    - vlod 3y ago
      Haah. I wonder how much healthier we'd be, if we removed video streaming services, video games and phones.
revscat 3y ago
People are sedentary because they are forced by law to drive everywhere.
- adversaryIdiot 3y ago
  and forced to work 8+ hours a day
- ars 3y ago
  People drove more 20 or 30 years ago than they do today. So that does not make any sense as being the cause. The actual cause, is of course, the phone.
  - vlod 3y ago
    I thought when the Nintendo Wii came out, it had the right idea with all those sports (boxing, tennis etc) games (needed that motion controller) I remember sweating, so I guess it was good. Anything like that anymore?
- vlod 3y ago
  There's really no reason to take the car for a 15 minute (1 mile walk there, 1 mile back). There's ways to introduce exercise even if you have to drive. At the grocery store, I see drivers drop people right at the entrance. How about go to the furthest parking spot and walk 5 mins. Take steps wherever you see them, usually near escalator or elevator. Take a train to work? Get off a stop before and walk to the next station. Do it in reverse on the way home. Lots of opportunity to be creative.
  - ethanbond 3y ago
    You know you're talking about a normal American life (miles?) when you mention drivers dropping people off at grocery stores and walking to/from the train. Where I grew up in Arizona (not rural at all), there was literally nowhere to go within a 15min walk.
    - 3y ago

CalRobert 3y ago

We also made it extremely difficult to use your muscles as your main mode of transport (be that walking, cycling, etc.)

endisneigh 3y ago
though I don't disagree, I don't see this as being the main cause as it's not any more difficult now than it was say in 1980.
- ethanbond 3y ago
  Yes it is. In the 80s if you were bored, the solution was to go play with your friends, go run around in the creek, etc. People weren't in better shape because they had ironclad discipline. Contrast to now: You're bored? Welp just sit right here on your ass and there is a literally bottomless bucket of entertainment that frankly is a lot more immediately satisfying than most of the stuff outside your house. And if you dare venture outside your house? Make sure you bring your parents because, increasingly often in the US, they can get arrested for child endangerment.
  - vlod 3y ago
    Haah. I wonder how much healthier we'd be, if we removed video streaming services, video games and phones.

revscat 3y ago

People are sedentary because they are forced by law to drive everywhere.

adversaryIdiot 3y ago
and forced to work 8+ hours a day
ars 3y ago
People drove more 20 or 30 years ago than they do today. So that does not make any sense as being the cause. The actual cause, is of course, the phone.
- vlod 3y ago
  I thought when the Nintendo Wii came out, it had the right idea with all those sports (boxing, tennis etc) games (needed that motion controller) I remember sweating, so I guess it was good. Anything like that anymore?
vlod 3y ago
There's really no reason to take the car for a 15 minute (1 mile walk there, 1 mile back). There's ways to introduce exercise even if you have to drive. At the grocery store, I see drivers drop people right at the entrance. How about go to the furthest parking spot and walk 5 mins. Take steps wherever you see them, usually near escalator or elevator. Take a train to work? Get off a stop before and walk to the next station. Do it in reverse on the way home. Lots of opportunity to be creative.
- ethanbond 3y ago
  You know you're talking about a normal American life (miles?) when you mention drivers dropping people off at grocery stores and walking to/from the train. Where I grew up in Arizona (not rural at all), there was literally nowhere to go within a 15min walk.
  - 3y ago