Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says

LATimes ^ | 7/17/2012

[D-fendr]

What I’ve noticed is kids don’t play outside much anymore.

Growing up, we were outside pretty much all we could be, in the woods, along the creeks, riding bikes, playing sandlot... had to be home before dark.

‘Course I’m old..

[nothingnew]

I don't exercise, I smoke quite a bit and drink, well, almost like a fish. I'm 61 yo and feel a little tired now and then.

Oh, yeah...I don't want to live until I'm 100+ yo.

FMCDH(BITS)

[nothingnew]

I’m thinking it’s a synergistic combination of food stamps and 60 inch televisions.

A very astute observation...(all the while the existing regime is trying very hard to get more and more on food stamps).

FMCDH(BITS)

[publius911]

Time for a tax on people who don’t exercise..I mean penalty...mandate...something, just don’t call it a tax.

The junk food industry is dozens of times the size of the tobacco industry.
If tobacco was good for a few hundred billion$, imagine the size of the take in store for the nanny bureaucrats!

WOO HOOOO!

... First they came for the Jews, and I said and did nothing, because I'm not a Jew...

[publius911]

Obesity is a “disease” of affluence.

Are you suggesting that all of Hussein's and Holder's peeps are affluent?

Food for thought...

[publius911]

What about quality of life?? Feeling great, not winded going up steps, less chance of being on med's, takes away stress and feeling of depression, incredible feeling it gives you while working out and hours after. I could go on and on...

Yes you could. Small people usually can.
Here's a different view, about "quality of life."

Miss [Florence] King on smoking: "It's this: I think suicide qua suicide is weak and shameful, but maybe, if I just keep smoking, I can hasten my exit from this Walpurgisnacht called America and escape the mephitic cultural collapse that Nice-Nelly conservatism is powerless to stop.

"This is probably wishful thinking in view of my family's medical history, but it points up another benefit of cigarettes we no longer hear about: consolation. Even the word is gone from the language now, but it was what came through in World War II newsreels showing weary soldiers and refugees lighting up. In their most despairing moments a cigarette was all they had, and increasingly I feel the same way.

"There goes my chance at Keynote 2000, even if I work on my perkiness and arrange to rent a baby."