The recent book “The World Is Fat” by Barry Popkin (http://amzn.to/99M10H) writes a lot about the gradual elimination from our lives activities that were once routine daily tasks. Everything from washing clothes, washing dishes, walking up stairs, mowing the lawn and much more all built up the number of calories that people burned daily/weekly. Technological inovation has taken these tasks out of our daily lives and helped to make life “easier”. The trade off has been a soaring rise in the obesity level, not to mention that people don’t exercise enough as you mention above. The more technology creeps into our daily lives, the more incentive one must find to keep the body moving and burning energy. The Pixar movie “WALL-E” illustrated this to the extreme in it’s portrayal of daily life on the large spaceships that humans lived on. (http://www.slate.com/id/2195126)
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