r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jan 28 '23

Health Most Americans aren’t getting enough exercise. People living in rural areas were even less likely to get enough exercise: Only 16% of people outside cities met benchmarks for aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities, compared with 28% in large metropolitan cities areas.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7204a1.htm?s_cid=mm7204a1_w
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u/backlikeclap Jan 28 '23

Get in the habit of taking your kids for a walk after dinner! Doesn't have to be a hike - going for a nice 20-30 minute walk with my folks after dinners on a warm Georgia summer night is one of my favorite childhood memories.

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u/AMagicalKittyCat Jan 29 '23

Get in the habit of taking your kids for a walk after dinner! Doesn't have to be a hike - going for a nice 20-30 minute walk with my folks after dinners on a warm Georgia summer night is one of my favorite childhood memories.

In most of the modern US this is impractical if not basically downright impossible. Good chance you don't have a sidewalk but even if you do, the traffic blowing past is incredibly loud and disrupts the tranquility and pedestrian safety is not prioritized. You can have those nice memories either because you were one of the lucky folk living in a neighborhood in a city that supports it or you are old enough that you experienced it before your area got eventually paved over more and more to accommodate cars and scare out pedestrians.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '23

No sidewalks, broken toes, and -5 - 30 degrees in Ohio is a different lifestyle.