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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People weren’t able to be as lazy as people are now.  They had to move more in their general life.  No food delivery, no Amazon, no grocery curbside, no work from home.  Kids played outside most of the day.  People that were poor eat less food- no free (garbage) school lunch and breakfast.  You just did without if you didn’t have money or had a small something.  People didn’t use phones and screens for entertainment constantly all day long.  More cooking at home.  Even if the cooking wasn’t great, chances are if fared better than the giant restaurant portions of today.  Portions were smaller in general then too, as ice cream places and fast food and such [/quote]

WFH is often seen as healthier and more exercise-conducive than working on-site. Except for people who walk or bike for a commute (which is not that many people, sadly), the time saved from WFH offers more opportunities for exercise than working in an office (which they likely get to via car) all day. Plus without having to comply with strict office dress codes or worry about arriving in the office sweaty, it's much easier to fit workouts in.

I started WFH way back in 2011 and the first things I did were hang a pull up bar and print up a little list of what would now be called HIIT exercise routines and tape it to the refrigerator. I'd do pull ups or chin ups on my way to the bathroom, I'd do a 10 minute HIIT workout before lunch or while listening to an earnings call. Plus I was eating from my fridge instead of grabbing lunch (and coffees) downtown, so the quality of my food went way up. And it's not like I was seeking out health food either. It's just that a snack would be crackers and cheese and maybe some apple slices, instead of a pastry from the cafe in the lobby. Lunch would be a turkey sandwich instead of a dressing-doused salad from Chop't. Fewer calories, less additives... over time it adds up and it's just a lot healthier than how I ate before.

I grant you that a lot of people have become over-reliant on having everything delivered, and eat out more than they used to. But I don't think WFH is the culprit here. It hasn't even been widely available until very recently.[/quote]

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