• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Obesity is a food issue, our reliance on cars and increasingly sedentary lifestyle may exacerbate the issue but it’s not the cause

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      3 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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        2 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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          2 hours ago

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

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            1 hour 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.

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              You would be surprised, but human biology is slightly more complicated than a furnace that you throw coal into.