unsympathetic fact that all there are buckets and buckets of research that all basically point towards the conclusion A sedentary lifestyle is fundamentally unhealthy and causes the human body all manner of health problems, because the human body and brain evolved to function in the context of autonomous movement. Call it scolding if you like, my up-thread comment certainly wasn't sugar-coated. But the bare, unambiguous fact on the ground is that people have to find a way to make sweating a part of their lifestyle and make moving under their own power a daily part of their life, or there are very negative health consequences. How people feel about it and what they do about it, that's up to them and I sincerely wish them luck because I've been out of shape, overweight, and under strong. Leaner, stronger, and healthier is much better. But acting like the facts aren't the facts re: movement, health, and the human body won't help anybody. Nor will waiting around for the lab-coat crowd to come up with the "health pill". Because that just ain't coming. Also, "'Exergames' Don't Cure Young Couch Potatoes" "Active" video games distributed to homes with children do not produce the increase in physical activity that nave parents (like me) expected. That's according to a study undertaken by the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and published early this year in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics ... They found "no evidence