I saw this article at the Well blog in The New York Times: Less Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on Pounds.
I've been saying this for years. It's exactly what happened to me. I'll have to agree with the 5th commenter who said something like "Duh." But we're not only less active at work, we're less active at home, too. It's not just that many have become couch potatoes, it's also that it takes less energy from us to do our daily work at home as well as at work. We need to build more movement into our daily lives; make life a little less convenient.
Less Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on Pounds
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Less Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on Pounds
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I was actually more entertained by the related article "Is Central Heating Making You Fat?"
As someone who lives in an uninsulated (until next week!!!) 1925 cottage, I can tell you that having a cold, cold house encourages sedentary behavior. That particular article proposes the idea that Americans started getting fat in the 1960s, and that with all the cultural changes going on at that time, the thing that made us fat was central heating.
What's next? "Does owning a Chihuahua make you fat?"
As someone who lives in an uninsulated (until next week!!!) 1925 cottage, I can tell you that having a cold, cold house encourages sedentary behavior. That particular article proposes the idea that Americans started getting fat in the 1960s, and that with all the cultural changes going on at that time, the thing that made us fat was central heating.
What's next? "Does owning a Chihuahua make you fat?"