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Fitness and Food
Our ancestors used to walk everywhere in search of food, collecting plants and berries, hunting, and fishing. The exercise was built into their lifestyle and dwarfed the amount of exercise we might squeeze into a quick gym visit today. In today’s developed nations, food is far more easily accessible, and we have other modes of transportation besides traveling on foot. But while the advances provide a cushy lifestyle, the resulting decrease in exercise has negatively affected our health.
A 2018 study by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that one in four adults worldwide—27.5 percent of adults—don’t get enough exercise according to WHO’s physical activity guidelines of 75 minutes of vigorous exercise or 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week.66 The study, which was based on data from 358 surveys and included 1.9 million participants from 168 countries, representing 96 percent of the world’s population, found that the problem of inactivity needed to be “urgently addressed.”