Pick up the pace! Slow walkers four times more likely to die from COVID-19, study finds

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25. Good for you

It's a lot more than self discipline though IMO. I think people are addicted to sugar in the US and have no idea they are and no idea the effects. The sugar addiction makes people eat when they are not really hungry and it makes people gorge themselves at one sitting and snack throughout the day.

I went to high school in the 80s, I could count on 1 hand the number of obese people in my class of 200 kids. Went to see a buddy's kid play high school football a couple years ago and the crowd was filled with obese kids, like 1 of every 4 would have been the heaviest kid that I went to high school with. It's a combination of a lot of things. But it is an absolute crisis and we need to start making some progress. When this generation of kids start to age, the impact on the health care system is going to be devastating.

My parents are a case study. My dad was a health nut his whole life, he was a national level distance runner, when he was 48 years old he could still run a 4:37 mile. When his knees went bad from all of the running he took up biking, and now at the age of 78 he bikes 30-40 miles 4 or 5 times a week. And when people picture an old man biking, they aren't picturing my dad, he's pushing himself and climbing hills standing up while passing younger people. My mom, never really exercised, never ate well, she was overweight the last 40 years, now at 78 her health is awful and her quality of life is for shit. Dad does everything, enjoys life and if cancer never comes could live to 100. Mom will be lucky to see 80.