Modern solution to campus exercise requirement: Put the dining hall 1 mile away from the dorms.
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#12I'm a fan of bringing back physical education. It seems that more of my younger colleagues (~23-30 y.o.) are trying to be physically active/fit. But exercise is a habit. If you don't build it up when you're young, it can be hard to develop it later. And then there's the physical challenges of returning to a physically active life after years or decades of inactivity. Certain injuries are more likely (like back, knee, tendon injuries) which can be debilitating, leading to months of recovery and more sedentary behavior.
And schools can always give several options to accommodate different interests and capabilities.
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#13Modern solution to campus exercise requirement: Put the dining hall 1 mile away from the dorms.
Beer kegs on the top floor of a tall building with no elevator.
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#14I've noticed that, at least in photos & videos, it seems cheetahs are exclusively either sprinting at 75mph, or lounging on the ground like a housecat.
It certainly makes sense for them, considering how much energy they expend to run that fast. So perhaps there's precedent.
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#15Modern solution to campus exercise requirement: Put the dining hall 1 mile away from the dorms.
And remove cheap, high calorie, low nutrition foods. No reason schools ought to provide students with tons of mac & cheese, they can do that to themselves. Give them healthy, nutritious options with the meal plans, and let them spend extra on the unhealthy stuff if they really want it.
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#16Modern solution to campus exercise requirement: Put the dining hall 1 mile away from the dorms.
Solution: Uber.
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#17I've noticed that, at least in photos & videos, it seems cheetahs are exclusively either sprinting at 75mph, or lounging on the ground like a housecat. It certainly makes sense for them, considering how much energy they expend to run that fast. So perhaps there's precedent.
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#18"But humans also “evolved with a very large stick: if you didn’t exercise, you had nothing to eat.” Exercise was mandatory. For many humans today, he points out, there are very few incentives and no penalties."
Not entirely true - in fact further down in the article:
"Furthermore, says HUHS director Paul Barreira, the same surveys show that students’ own sense of health and well-being tracks the amount of exercise they report getting. Those with the most depression and anxiety also get the least exercise. The happiest students get the most."
So the penalties include depression, anxiety, and in future, propensity for heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, etc., etc. So either we haven't evolved enough to consider the penalty of dying young and having a more miserable existence while alive, or is it just that evolution optimizes to the point of reproduction and then doesn't care about much after successfully handing down genes to the next generation?
(Edit: I might also ask, without putting forth a theory or guess, what statistics say about obesity and likelihood of reproduction? If health is poorer than non-obese humans, is there a lesser chance of successful reproduction? If so, shouldn't that be considered the ultimate penalty?)
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#19I'm a fan of bringing back physical education. It seems that more of my younger colleagues (~23-30 y.o.) are trying to be physically active/fit. But exercise is a habit. If you don't build it up when you're young, it can be hard to develop it later. And then there's the physical challenges of returning to a physically active life after years or decades of inactivity. Certain injuries are more likely (like back, knee,…
Bringing it back? Is it no longer offered?
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#20If we have always been lazy, why is there now an obesity epidemic? It seems to me that means the cause of obesity lies elsewhere.
Prior to the 20th century (depending on where you live, but this is for the areas hit with obesity epidemics): 1. You had to walk most places (often miles a day). 2. You had to physically labor. Most people didn't have desk jobs or the period's equivalent. 3. Food was relatively scarce, and harder to transport. 4. Social activities (we are social creatures) required physical effort (walking to, dancing, walking aroun…
This also tracks with lower obesity rates in cities and other places where walking is a fact of life.
I didn't actually think there was anything informative about the article. It was just a prominent name stuck on what we already knew intuitively.