Hey, I just found an article on webMD, which claimed that obese women get 1 hour of exercise a year, and men get under 4 hours. I thought that sounded a bit ludicrous, and I wanted to get your take on it.

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fartgoblinofdoom77-deactivated2

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Clearly I can stop doing yoga now, as I’m waaaay over that for the whole year already.

That’s just impressively ridiculous. It’s almost certainly not based on a study, but if it is, it’s an incredibly biased study just in terms of selection factor. Also in terms of definition of “exercise”. Just the number of people who walk as a major means of transportation or as part of their job disprove that utterly. Holy shit.

The dual assumption here – that fat people must not ever exercise, and that exercise means physical activity that has no other purpose and probably conforms to some other arbitrary standards – is not supported by reality in any way, shape or form. It’s like saying poor people never exercise based on the fact that they can’t afford gym memberships, and never mind that many or most working class people spend far more of their time in strenuous physical activity than a rich person who spends an hour at the gym three days a week. This is doubly true because there’s a higher rate of poverty among fat people and, conversely, of being fat among poor people.

*shakes head, still laugh* What bullshit will they come up with next?

-MG