30th Sep 2003
More Insights Into Why Americans Are Fat
The government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is so dispirited about how fat and lazy Americans are, it has loosened its recommendations as to what constitutes exercise in pace with Americans loosening their belts. AP reports:
For those daunted by even moderate exercise, the CDC has a list of even less intense activities it says would be at least a step in the right direction, including making photocopies, playing video games, coloring, sitting in a whirlpool bath, floating and “purposeless wandering.”
The agency says an hour of such light activity is equal to 30 minutes of moderate activity, but light activity wasn’t included in the latest survey. Light activity includes almost every activity that involves motion and some that don’t: playing table tennis, miniature golf, darts or pool, shooting a pistol, yachting, fishing while seated, even light office work that includes movement of “little more than hands and fingers.”
I especially like “purposeless wandering.” That would make a great hobby on a Nerve personal or a Friendster profile. Also works as a post-ironic band name.
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