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In my opinion, not enough people are exercising or eating healthy. How do you get more people do both?
by SirMaster 3y ago
In my opinion, not enough people are exercising or eating healthy.
How do you get more people do both?
- throwaway5959 3y agoIn the US, stop requiring them to work for health insurance so they can take a few months off between jobs to recharge.
- chomp 3y agoI’m pretty sure that would only help the mid-upper classes that can afford the nest egg to take a sabbatical like that. Exercise and eating healthy (read: cooking) in our modern society requires leisure time, which has mostly been eradicated for the lower classes.
- loa_in_ 3y agoWhich, coincidentally, is part of the problem
- datavirtue 3y agoI can make just about anything I want faster, cheaper and with far less drama than food delivery or a drive-through trip (and a hell of a lot cheaper). I find your comment confusing.
- klyrs 3y agoI'd be pretty happy if restaurant employees were incentivized to stay home while infectuous, rather than risk getting fired.
- nradov 3y agoI'm all for decoupling health insurance coverage from employment, but there is no evidence that taking extended time off work results in better health outcomes.
- throwaway5959 3y agoIt would help if people could use it to change their diet and exercise habits. A lot of people stress eat.
- datavirtue 3y agoThe eat mindlessly, leaping from one lump of refined carb and saturated fat to another.
- listenallyall 3y agoPeople aren't batteries, recharging isn't really a thing. Except for LinkedIn influencers, people don't come back from time off, whether a week or 3 months, with great vigor and propensity to work hard. Inertia kicks in, it takes time to ramp back up.
- craftkiller 3y agoThat seems irrelevant to the discussion. The question[0] was about how to get people to exercise and eat healthy, not how to get people to provide more value to their employers. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801885
- morkalork 3y agoYou're not going to get much traction with advertising the benefits and education oriented campaigns. Most of the time, if someone doesn't already have a habit of exercising, you're probably not going to be successful at getting them to start. They're busy with the rest of their lives. What you've gotta do is trick them into it. Just sneak a little exercise into their daily routines without them noticing. You do that by making them live in walkable cities.
- LorenPechtel 3y agoThat is rarely going to cause disability.
- scherlock 3y agoStop subsidizing corn production. Invest in making fruits and vegetables cheaper. Encourage development that includes high walkable and bikable aspects while minimizing driving aspects.
- faeriechangling 3y agoI find it fascinating how fixated people are on the demand side of this issue. If everybody made "healthy choices" tomorrow, they would starve because there aren't even enough healthy foods on the shelves. I don't get how a country can criminalise drugs but subsidise HFCS. HFCS has to kill around the same amount of people as fentanyl does.