• msprout@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    America’s obesity epidemic is a function of our car culture. This is the only country on God’s green Earth that feels putting in sidewalks is a moral failure.

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      20 hours ago

      Obesity is a food issue, our reliance on cars and increasingly sedentary lifestyle may exacerbate the issue but it’s not the cause

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        9 hours ago

        You can’t really know it. I suspect it’s a combination of the two. If you drive everywhere and sit around the rest of the time, you can’t be healthy no matter your diet.

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          1 hour ago

          It’s obvious that this is not the most important underlying cause, as other countries which are less auto oriented are also quite fat.

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          7 hours ago

          Obesity is a product of excess caloric intake NOT sedentary lifestyle.

          Lack of cardiovascular and kinesthetic health is a product of a sedentary lifestyle.

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            7 hours ago

            It is once again, incredibly simplistic view of a very complicated issue, so simplistic it stops being accurate.

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              7 hours ago

              Unless you’ve magically discovered the source of energy and mass from nothing, and revolutionized our understanding of the natural world … no, it isn’t.