In addition, research has found that Obesity increases risk of Covid-19 death by 48% .
that as a result of a three-month lockdown, many more people could become obese, from almost 98,000 to 434,000, putting them at high risk for future disease.
And so the all-ages shutdown and saves lives in the long term, versus fostering exercise and health?
Obesity causes inactivity.
Double-barrel death risk.
Like smoking was 50 years ago, today inactivity & obesity are BY FAR the lowest hanging fruit in life quality/expectancy and stress on the healthcare system.
Those little old ladies one sees outside every day, wearing their house dresses while sweeping each individual leaf into a dustpan seem to live a long time.
One good thing about working from home is that it allows me to go for a 20-minute walk every two hours or so, I easily get in 5-10 miles a day of walking. Even got a tan, which I haven’t had in years.
Additionally I learned the difference between a comorbidity and a risk factor. Obesity and advanced age are risk factors. Diseases, like those which often accompany obesity, that affect one’s body are comorbidities. I had not realized that difference before.
Our poorest people are the most likely to obese. Also, they are the most passively entertained and the least used to strenuous physical activity of any other group of poor people ever. These are conditions like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
Freegards
You can’t make me get up and exercise. I’m stuck on this computer. I’m addicted I tell ya. I’m . I’m . . oh my heart . . ackk!!
If you think of a thick stagnant forest with mosquito infested and bacteria infest pools and puddles that are still for weeks.
Then think of a stream hurling down a rocky mountain side. Or through a forest with plenty of air, wind, space.
In one of those places, things destructive to certain forms grow. It's true that they attain their own natural form, but that form is not conducive to human life.
The ancients had it right even though they didn't understand it (and really, we still don't, but we understand much more) .... wind, fire, liquid, 'solid' ... it's counterintuitive that for anything alive (that is, anything dependent upon phenomena) to maintain it's form as life, it must move.
Movement is what preserves and maintains the form through time.
In part that translates into 'exercise' but exercise is not the key point and strenuous exercise is not even necessary.
It's movement, and the right movement.
My grandmother, who was never thin, lived well into her 90s. She also had a lifelong "high fat" diet, took snuff and had hard liquor every day.
But she was up at 4am every morning to make biscuits and gravy, mowed her lawn, did her own gardening and did other farm type chores like milking the cow, feeding the chickens and whatnot.
"Always be moving" she used to tell me.
It served her well, despite all her "bad" habits.
As a result of the lockdown, I’ve lost a few pounds, down to 118, my high-school weight. Why? Not doing enough to get hungry. I literally forget to eat.
Maybe pushing for fat acceptance was a bad idea?
So what does that say about lockdowns?
So, an active fatso will only drop dead about half as often as a sedentary porker?