Time for Exercise

I meant to blog this the other day. I really did. But then the California fires started, including some near enough to my home that I had to evacuate. Kind of put a kink in a lot of my plans.

There was a story on Reuters about how obesity is primarily a result of modern life. Sad as that makes me, it also makes sense. High calorie foods are very easily available now, so people tend to stock up too much and eat too much. After all, you used to have to eat whenever possible to get by.

Add that to more and more sedentary lifestyles and of course people are going to be having weight problems.

But that doesn’t mean you have to sit and take it. It just means you have to think more about what you eat and how sedentary you are in order to fight it.

From the article:

Tackling obesity, like tackling climate change, requires a range of changes in society, from increasing everyday activity through the design of the built environment and transport systems to shifting the drivers of the food chain and consumer purchasing patterns to favor healthier options.

That sums it up pretty well. Most people don’t mean to get overweight or obese. It happens because they do what comes naturally. To cut down on obesity rates is going to take very specific efforts that will make it easier to be healthy than unhealthy.