[WaPo] Trump to bring back presidential physical fitness test canceled by Obama

No food + exercise or else = no obesity

 

Nay, some of us don’t buy into marketing slogans and prefer actual, realistic, feasible, well-thought-out solutions. I know that’s hard for you to grasp because, well, today’s culture thinks 20-word tweets solve everything.

If you haven’t noticed, this administration is good at one thing... BS marketing. Every trade deal they announce supposedly brings in trillions of dollars. Trillions. Great for headlines. But dig just one cm in and you’ll see it’s all BS. That’s their version of “doing something”... something we don’t need, but it sounds great in slogans, tweets, and headlines while solving absolutely no real problems.

 

All political slogans are garbage intended to mislead their flock.

Here are the ones you support and believe are awesome and/or accurate:

• Affordable Health Care

• I’m With Her

• Stronger Together

• Love Trumps Hate

• A Political Revolution Is Coming

• Fixing Democracy Can’t Wait

• Rebuild the American Dream

• Build Back Better

• Restore the Soul of America

• Our Best Days Still Lie Ahead

• No Malarkey

• Not Me. Us.

• Big, Structural Change

• Persist

• Dream Big, Fight Hard

• I Have a Plan for That

• Win the Era

• It’s Time for a New Generation of American Leadership

• For the People

• Lead with Love

• Humanity First

• Not Left, Not Right, Forward

• Make America Think Harder (MATH)

• Better for America, Better for All

• A Better Deal

• Reproductive Freedom

• Climate Action

• Building a Better America

• Democrats Deliver

• Organizing Everywhere

 

You could just said BS Marketing and be done. Now, slogan are actually FINE if there are actual thoughts behind it that can be executed, is feasible and realistic. And solve a real problem.

As for YOU SUPPORT AND BELIEVE ITS AWESOME - how did you come to that? LOL. Partisan habits are hard to break.

 

Yeah they are stealing from the republicans playbook on reducing fossil fuel consumption and carbon output.
I work out 4-5 days a week. One thing I know to be true. It takes an insane amount of working out to make up for a crappy diet. People are just saying let’s start with the root of the problem, ie food, and then tackle exercise. But deep down you know that, you just can’t help yourself.

 

Touché and My bad. With the crazy stuff I see people say on here and the internet in general I just never know.

 

As the saying goes, you can't outrun a crappy diet.

Its less about burning calories and more about becoming more active. Its a terrible cycle - The more active a person is, the easier it is to stay active, burn more calories, spend less time eating poorly, ect. Its extremely difficult to moderate.

 

Relevant:

New Duke Study Finds Obesity Rises with Caloric Intake, Not Couch Time | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

A newly released study from Duke University’s Pontzer Lab, housed in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, looks at the correlations between economic development, daily energy expenditure and the rise in a country’s obesity level.

While many experts have offered that rising obesity rates are due to declining physical activity as societies become more industrialized, the findings show that people in wealthier countries expend just as much — or even more — energy daily. In an article recently published in PNAS, Duke researchers point instead to higher caloric intake as the primary driver, suggesting that diet rather than idleness plays the bigger role in the global obesity crisis.

“Despite decades of trying to understand the root causes of the obesity crisis in economically developed countries, public health guidance remains stuck with uncertainty as to the relative importance of diet and physical activity. This large, international, collaborative effort allows us to test these competing ideas. It’s clear that changes in diet, not reduced activity, are the main cause of obesity in the U.S. and other developed countries,” says Herman Pontzer, principal investigator with the Pontzer Lab and professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology.

The researchers analyzed thousands of measurements of daily energy expenditure, body fat percentage and body mass index (BMI) from adults aged 18 to 60 across 34 populations spanning six continents. The more than 4,200 adults included in the study came from a wide range of lifestyles and economies, including hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, farming and industrialized populations. To further categorize the level of industrialization, they also integrated data from the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) to incorporate measures of lifespan, prosperity and education.

“While we saw a marginal decrease in size-adjusted total energy expenditure with economic development, differences in total energy expenditure explained only a fraction of the increase in body fat that accompanied development. This suggests that other factors, such as dietary changes, are driving the increases in body fat that we see with increasing economic development,” says Amanda McGrosky, a Duke postdoctoral alumna and lead investigator for the study who is now an assistant professor of biology at Elon University.

The researchers hope the study helps clarify public health messaging and strategies to tackle the obesity crisis and explain that the findings do not mean that efforts to promote physical activity should be minimized. Instead, the data support an emerging consensus that both diet and exercise should be prioritized. “Diet and physical activity should be viewed as essential and complementary, rather than interchangeable,” the study notes. They will next work to identify which aspects of diet in developed countries are most responsible for the rise in obesity.

 

This is very true.

All the same, exercise alone is helpful and can help induce better food choices.

 

From the article above:

There is little evidence the fitness tests did much to improve children’s health, which should be unsurprising. Public health experts emphasize that a combination of lifestyle changes is needed to make kids healthier, including improved nutrition as well as regular exercise. That means limiting sugary drinks and processed foods as well as getting children to participate in at least 60 minutes of vigorous activity a day. One or two annual fitness tests are not going to make that a reality.
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Many schools have restricted recess time to less than 20 minutes a day. Some have eliminated it. Ending recess is a recipe for children acting out, struggling to focus in the classroom and becoming obese. If the school day needs to be lengthened to allow for gym class and outdoor play time, so be it.

Unfortunately, the White House has not always backed up its rhetoric with action. In recent weeks, the administration froze billions of dollars in federal education funding, including for after-school programs and teacher training. It reversed course only after backlash from GOP senators.

 

The editorial is fine. But we know the WaPo editorial board has shifted its politics over the last year to be less adversarial to Trump. Much speculation as to why, which I won’t get into.

 

Our own DD will win the presidential fitness medal. Kryspy Kreme will sponsor him. Bwahahaha!

 

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