While I strive to be cheery and upbeat here, considering the present holiday I feel it appropriate to mention a few scary things related to fitness. Reader discretion is advised.
Nautilus Machines and Other Mechanical Marvels
In ancient times people exercised by picking up rocks and swinging on vines, and they were very fit. Then fancy scientific exercise machines were invented, with pulleys and gears and a padded seat on which to rest, and everyone got weak and flabby. Fortunately kettlebells and Olympic Rings(and TRX) have been invented, based on prehistoric cave drawings, and fitness is again possible.
The Remote Control
People think that television is a problem, but really it's the remote. Think about it- before the remote, when someone channel surfed, it was jump up, run to the TV, change the channel, run back to the laz-y boy, stretch out. Repeat. It was like doing Turkish get-ups or burpees with a sprint in the middle.
Photo grabbed from Vicens on Wikimedia.org
Isn't normal frying is bad enough?
The vitamin pill is the enabler for separating nutrition and food. Instead of eating healthful food, eat whatever you want, and then take a vitamin, right? Even when the importance of nutrition is acknowledged, the attempted "solution" is to add vitamins into manufactured food products, rather than to choose and promote actual food with its natural nutritional goodness.
The Drive-ThroughHeaven forbid someone should have to walk from their car into the fast food station for their deep fried food-like products. The drive-through makes it possible for the indolent to procure and consume mass quantities of grease and sugar without ever leaving the comfort their automotive nests and standing upright.