alt Hacker News> Given the abundance of options for fitness classes and meal plan services...
This is part of what's fucked up about modern American lifestyles.
We shouldn't be promoting layering healthy behaviors (fresh foods and exercise) on top of our default lives -- we should be doing a better job of engineering our environment to make those things the default for all people.
F.ex. what if we highly taxed automobile entry into urban cores and shopping districts?
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Every yuppy feels compelled to remind you they go to the gym, expecting a pat on the head for being a responsible citizen, when it's really a sign of a dysfunctional lifestyle. Cordoning off a discrete slice of time to "be healthy" is pathetic imo. I'd much rather just be healthy. Gorillas don't work out.
But because I live in suburban Australia and eat the same pesticide laden slop as everybody else, I too have a gym membership.
Right. Design our cities so that getting around while getting exercise is safe and easy. And restaurants/etc should give you healthy portion sizes by default, not rely on your self-control to stop eating. And so on...