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You're fighting millions of years of evolution here, you're definitely more adapted to walk a few hours per day than to sit in front of a computer. Your entire body was designed for something we don't do anymore, which we replaced by things it was never design to withstand (lack of exercise, bad diets, bad posture, &c.)



I'm starting to think that mental health is the real issue in modern society. All the rewards described by exercise may be available through good mental health. I think we maybe to focused on the physical symptoms.


I’m not fighting anything. You can’t prove that I need to walk more than two hours a day to stay healthy. You can’t prove that humans haven’t evolved, at all, over that period of 1 million years.

Saying that we need a minimum of two hours walking per day is not based in any kind of fact at all. It is entirely assumption.

Exercise, yes, exercise for two hours or more per day, who knows?


All I know is that I follow my rules and I'm healthier than 99% of people I meet


> I'm healthier than 99% of people I meet

Sure. At least we now have a sample size of 1 to extrapolate from.


The sample size is the western world, and we're at 70% of obese/overweight so clearly seating on your ass all day long isn't good. The average american walks something like 3k steps per day and its their sole activity. The #1 death cause in the west is directly caused by lack of exercise. How can people be in such denial ? If you have a full time desk job there aren't enough time in a day for you to over exercise, every single second you'll spend doing anything other than seating/laying down will b an improvement

> You can't prove that ...

Dude, open your eyes, look around you, seeing 70%+ of people having a beer belly at 30 isn't normal, it isn't healthy, most people don't even hit the bare minimum recommendations, I don't need a mathematical proof, it's all here in front of us




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