Has this gotten worse in the last 20 years, though? I think it was similarly bad around 2000, and yet, Americans have gotten less healthy over that period.
A combination of brutal heat and lack of pedestrian friendly routes means almost no one walks.
They’re pretty healthy though. Lots of veggies and being fat is bad.
We could try that too!
Median age increased from 35.3 in 2000 to 38.6 today.
I suspect an increase in using computers both at work and home has played a role.
Urbanization has increased from 79% in 2000 to 83%, among everything else I think fewer people are doing yard work.
> A majority of infrastructure in the US makes it extremely hard to be healthy
This is a copout.The only hard thing about being healthy is having the discipline to do so. Certainly more than 6.8% of people have the means to have healthy diet and they choose not to. There are definitely extreme cases of poverty where it would be difficult (which people who are well above that will use as an example to make themselves feel better about their choices) but I'd argue it's still very reasonable to be able to lead a very healthy lifestyle.
We're fat as hell because we live a life of extreme abundance.