• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    You can’t really know it. I suspect it’s a combination of the two. If you drive everywhere and sit around the rest of the time, you can’t be healthy no matter your diet.

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      3 hours ago

      It’s obvious that this is not the most important underlying cause, as other countries which are less auto oriented are also quite fat.

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      9 hours ago

      Obesity is a product of excess caloric intake NOT sedentary lifestyle.

      Lack of cardiovascular and kinesthetic health is a product of a sedentary lifestyle.

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        9 hours ago

        It is once again, incredibly simplistic view of a very complicated issue, so simplistic it stops being accurate.

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          9 hours ago

          Unless you’ve magically discovered the source of energy and mass from nothing, and revolutionized our understanding of the natural world … no, it isn’t.