Forcing every adult to exercise 30 minutes a day would probably also have positive health outcomes. But would that be a good enough reason to introduce such a policy?
I think a harder challenge would be to get rid of all the bad foods and snacks. Facebook might be a good place to test removing bad foods given how many people live there and never leave. I can not even begin to imagine the incentives that would be required for people to adopt it.
[1] - https://www.trtworld.com/life/japanese-companies-introduce-e...
Health insurance companies already offer gym reimbursements. But that doesn't matter if you have a bad diet and bad sleep and spend too much time working or commuting, and don't feel well enough to benefit from a gym membership.
Heck, there's literally a free gym in the office building where I work, but few people use it because they are busy working during the work day.
I already get worn out physically by the thing I do for a living. I negotiated delicately to keep the amount of it I do to a minimum so that I can also do the things I regard as real life, which take place in bed with my laptop. If the government forces a mandatory half-hour of exercise on me I will get militant. I'm not gonna be frogboiled into accepting it, either.
One-size-fits-all solutions suck donkey balls.
Do they really have compulsory exercise in Japan? You say "off and on" ... so, I'm guessing, currently off?
Oh, from the link, it's mandated by the company you work for. That would select for office workers, and possibly fits Japan best considering the culture of being always in the office (asleep).
Yes 30 minutes of exercise a day and other ”law” like one preventing people from overeating to where they wouldn’t be able to walk anymore would be wildly positive but seeing as it’d impose on the freedom to be unhealthy it would not work.
School smartphone ban has an obvious way to be enforced since it gives teachers the ability to do what they've wanted to do all along.
In my workplace, they pay you $$ for submitting step counter data, etc.
In my church, the run club that encourages this has been great.
At my country club, the “challenges” they release every month similarly have been great and the vast majority of the community participates in them competitively.
Do you mean federal policy (for some odd reason)?
The mere thought of someone advising them would be literal hell.
if I am a heavy smoker, heavy drinker etc I have to make sure my 11-year old lights up with me and cracks open a bottle after a long day in school…?
still hoping you are joking though…
They are saying leaving by example is a good tool. They are not saying that every single rule must be symmetric
don’t think you are following or reading…
Hence, leading by example is a good tool.
You're the only one trying to apply to every single edge case imaginable.
No, you don't have to stop driving a car either just because you won't let your toddler take the wheel.