Where are you on the global fat scale?

[YorkVol]

Originally Posted by golfballs

More-so our diet, IMO

Diet is certainly a culprit, but we're a bunch of sloths! Recently finished Bill Bryson's book about hiking the AT. At one point he realized that in an hour he had just hiked further than most Americans walk in a week. I love this quote that followed:

“I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

[golfballs]

Originally Posted by YorkVol

Diet is certainly a culprit, but we're a bunch of sloths! Recently finished Bill Bryson's book about hiking the AT. At one point he realized that in an hour he had just hiked further than most Americans walk in a week. I love this quote that followed:

Americans are definitely sloths.