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Comment by SchemaLoad | original | Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production
[−]SchemaLoad · 2026-07-01 Wed 23:47 UTC · link
This is sadly not a rare type of person. I'm worried my parents fit this description, they drive everywhere and work an office job. I'd guess on average they get 0 minutes of exercise a day.

I think people get this image in their head that someone who doesn't exercise ever is this comically fat unemployed person when in reality it's the average office worker who isn't fitness minded. A good chunk of HN users wouldn't be getting 15 minutes of exercise a day.

[−]jraby3 · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:58 UTC · link
Looking at a few friend's health app on their iPhone it's amazing to me to see people who walk less than 2,000 steps a day and don't go to the gym. It's shockingly normal in some places though.