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Ask yourselves why this book is now a “reading assignment” for HS seniors in some public schools …[/quote]
For the same politically correct reasons that Deasy is framing the discussion around iPads in LAUSD as being a civil rights issue that ‘these kids’ deserve to have iPads like the rich kids… 🙂
FF is just a symptom. The primary driver is bad habits gain in an extended adolescence and delayed marriage, which is then further complicated by a sedentary lifestyle which is further propagated by C&C.
As for ‘health clubs’ maybe 10% of the attendees are fit? Every time I show up, I see pretty typical American pudge and a boat load of people going thru the motions. Now if you’re showing up at 5AM, it tends to be the hard core crowd. mid-morning to mid-afternoon, the retire/sponsored set and after work, the harried I’m checking my workout box group.
Too much sitting, too much convenient food.[/quote]
I dunno, nsr. C&C was always around, even when there were only 2-3 FF joints to choose from. HOWEVER, workers probably didn’t commute as far as they do now, on average, and, in any case, didn’t have anywhere near the housing choices they have today.
The “commute” part of C&C is ALWAYS a conscious choice. The worker chose to put themselves through that. Eating FF for lunch or serving it to your family for dinner is also a conscious choice as there are many alternatives.
As for the gym, I see a LOT of fit people there (I think to think of myself as included in that group :)) but I have to admit that the majority of the regulars I see there (fit to extremely fit) are mostly boomers with a smattering of seniors. These are the people with more time to spend there getting in shape. The majority of the weightlifting crowd appear to be male HS and college students.
As for the “hard-core” 5 am crowd, I wouldn’t know because I don’t go there at that time :=0
I’ve observed that the 7 am crowd is composed of mostly seniors and some of them are in awesome shape. But my gym has been around for 23 years and many of its members have been going there that long.
