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Originally Posted by Supple Cow
World now has more fat people than hungry ones: expert
by Lawrence Bartlett Mon Aug 14, 5:22 AM ET
I added the emphasis near the end there. I know that the lower cost of calories and fat and increased availability coincide with rise of technology and the decline in physical activity, but I have a hard time accepting a statment like 'now that I have to think about it and it actually costs money (  !), I don't know, this whole exercising thing is just really hard to accept!' It is preposterous to me because eating food also costs money and requires us to think about it - in fact, about three times a day on average.
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There is a large element of having to go out of your way to get enough exercise. I'm a fitness nut, but I do understand how our sedentary work - sitting in front of a computer for many - make sit much harder to stay fit than when we shucked hay or did other manual labour. Most people don't walk to work, they commute, either by car or subway, and don't have a big chocie in the matter. We live in non-temperate areas now - I can't imagine doing a lot of running, the way I do now, if I lived in a really hot environment like Arizona or New Mexico - you do need a gym in many places outside temperate zones.