Canada to lower exercise guidelines

Wow, we suck. Way to think about the future of Canadians' health, guys.

I know everyone�s opinion will vary on this subject. Your lazy, your responsible for yourself, Health Canada is good/bad. To me though this article should read �we�re over worked, under rested, and don�t have the time we need to maintain our health�.

If you�re fortunate enough, ask your grandparents just how �hard� their life was. If they�re honest they�ll tell you they used to get 10 hours sleep, and a work day was actually 9-5 with an hour lunch. BlackBerries didn�t exist so no one ever thought about work after 5. Lots of people were rural farmers, and while planting and harvest seasons were generally sunrise to sunset, the rest of the year was relatively easy.

If they really want to improve the health of Canadians, they would mandate European style 5-9 week mandatory vacation that follows you from job to job, and Euro style bans on after work cell phone use. It might be surprising what people do with their free time when they aren�t so exhausted all they can manage is sitting on the couch and watching TV.

that's good 'cause there's not nearly enough goddam fat kids in this country.

Well, everyone is like that (lazy, your responsible for yourself - so I do what I want) , it depends from the conditions of life, for example I don't have any tranport and moving by bus is too expensive, I save money by walking to college on my own, it takes 40 minutes to one side. In the evening I go outeside to play football, basketball or just sit near the river, the water helps my mind and body a lot. So I think that's the sign that the quality of life grows somewhere: most of people have cars, move by bus, have a sattelite tv and etc and blah blah blah. If you don't want to move, you will not, and if yes - you will. Anyway you can ask your girlfriend, wife or friend to buy a big angry dog, so quick run every day will be possible.

I don't know who your grandparents were but that sure as hell wasn't the routine that mine followed. Nor did my father, nor do I.

The "I don't have time" excuse is just that - an excuse to justify laziness. Yes, there are some people who honestly don't but they're few and far between. Most are simply unmotivated, or would rather sit in front of the tube than get off the couch and do something productive for themselves. After all - you don't get paid to do things for yourself do you? So why bother?

Also, look at why most people work the insane hours they do. Not to live the modest lives our grandparents did. Most do it because they want the big house with all of the creature comforts, a bunch of electronic crap to park their kids in front of (because "they don't have time" to do anything with them), and the big holiday every year/couple years so they have something to talk about with their friends. It's all a bunch of crap.

Reducing the guidelines really won't change anything. It's not like they were enforced anyway. All the reduction does is soothes the conscience of the couch potatoes so they don't have to spend any more of their precious time trying to justify their laziness or lack of motivation. Our reward - more obese diabetics in our future. Hooray...

I don't know who your grandparents were but that sure as hell wasn't the routine that mine followed. Nor did my father, nor do I.

The "I don't have time" excuse is just that - an excuse to justify laziness. Yes, there are some people who honestly don't but they're few and far between. Most are simply unmotivated, or would rather sit in front of the tube than get off the couch and do something productive for themselves. After all - you don't get paid to do things for yourself do you? So why bother?

Also, look at why most people work the insane hours they do. Not to live the modest lives our grandparents did. Most do it because they want the big house with all of the creature comforts, a bunch of electronic crap to park their kids in front of (because "they don't have time" to do anything with them), and the big holiday every year/couple years so they have something to talk about with their friends. It's all a bunch of crap.

Reducing the guidelines really won't change anything. It's not like they were enforced anyway. All the reduction does is soothes the conscience of the couch potatoes so they don't have to spend any more of their precious time trying to justify their laziness or lack of motivation. Our reward - more obese diabetics in our future. Hooray...

We make money, losing our health - later we lose our money to repair our health.

That's exactly right. And we're leading the next generations to follow a very poor example.

We're not doing our children any favours.

Not too long ago we just didnt get any older than 50. And we didnt have cars or busses. Now, we seem to HAVE to live till 100...

No one wants to live to 100...........till they turn 99.

Well, they're doing a great job wiht the kids. My son is just so enthused about gym class now that all they do is dance. I tell you, boys much prefer dancing to soccer or hockey.

I play soccer a couple of times a week. On Wednesdays, I go for a pint or three with the boys after--mostly British and Scottish ex-pats. We always invite the new folks along and one time buddy says "Why would I ruin all that good exercise by drinking beer?" I'm like "Buddy, if I thought for one moment that playing soccer with my mates was exercise I wouldn't be here."

Why would you ruin all that good beer-drinking by thinking playing soccer with your mates was exercise?

"Prof_Chomsky"



I find the article reads that Canadians have essentially grown fat and lazy.



You say on one hand our grandparents worked 9 - 5 with a lunch hour and ten hours of sleep a day, then you change your mind and say lots of our grandparents were rural farmers - which, regardless of the season, work very long days indeed. And I'm fairly sure (inlaws were farmers) that they thought a lot about work after 5pm. So the contradiction of your argument isn't lost here.

The ten hours of day of sleep (call BS here) likely came because they didn't have a TV or cumputer or XBox to voluntarily sit in front of. In other words, we get six hours of sleep because that's what we budget ourselves so that we can indulge in our hobbies.



I'm not sure why you want the nanny state running your life, but I'm quite happy for it to stay out of mine. The responsibility is on the individual to get off they're lazy fucking ass at the beginning and end of the day and get some exercise. During the day, take stairs, don't eat donuts and drink high fat lattes.
The short of it is, if you need to make excuses for yourself, so be it, but I don't think they ought to apply to the nation as a whole.

Everyone wants to live a long time but no one wants to get old.

Chomsky makes a good point. Even hardworking farmers moved to a much slower rythem than people do now. And got good exercise while doing it, ate healthy foods and got good sleep. Everybody naturally exercised more - just by walking. A lot of what's adding the pounds is stress from our hyper lifestyle - cortisol gives you belly fat, and when you're stressed ie mentally tired it's easy to just bag out on the couch instead of exercising, even tho exercise is a great stress buster. If you let modern life push you around by it's schedule it's not very healthy. People's priorities are all out of whack, just about getting more consumer goods to stupify their minds with.