Comment by tasuki
6 months ago
> After work/study, chores, and basic self care, there is no time left in the day.
I find that hard to believe.
I'm a single parent and manage to find the time for exercise. I wonder what life situation you have that you have "1 spare hour".
> By the time it gets to the weekend, I'm so tired I don't want to do anything much, let alone difficult exercise.
I can't help but think you just don't want to exercise...
Again, you need a better solution than just blaming individuals because that isn't working at scale. The US is a significant global outlier in healthcare. It spends substantially more per capita and as a percentage of its economy than any other high-income nation. Despite this high spending, the health outcomes are average to below-average on a wide range of key metrics (life expectancy, infant mortality, etc). It's not sustainable long-term. And there's no silver bullet, you'll need multiple great solutions.
I'm not blaming anyone, just observing that they don't actually want to exercise.
> The US is a significant global outlier in healthcare.
What has the US to do with any of this?
> Despite this high spending, the health outcomes are average to below-average on a wide range of key metrics
That's because health outcomes are mostly affected by lifestyle and luck, rather than high spending.
> And there's no silver bullet, you'll need multiple great solutions.
(Only slightly tongue in cheek) There is a silver bullet: Get rid of the cars, start using self-powered modes of transport, such as walking and cycling.
How many hours per day do you sleep?
Not many, actually. I'm sure that's pretty bad, too.
Right, yeah you can create more time in the day by sleeping less but like you say it's probably not good. For some reason I need a few more hours sleep than average, and it really negatively affects me to get less sleep than that on the regular. So I will make the argument that I have less time in the day :P
However you are also right that I don't particularly enjoy exercising. My point was more that life exerts various "pressures" which may reasonably reduce the likelihood of exercise (or any aspect of wellbeing). If we want to encourage higher wellbeing, we should probably reduce these pressures.