{"id":1029,"date":"2004-01-17T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2004-01-17T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2004-01-17T18:43:05","modified_gmt":"2004-01-17T23:43:05","slug":"old-time-fitnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/01\/old-time-fitnes\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/webcenter.health.webmd.netscape.com\/content\/article\/79\/96115.htm\">Old-Time Fitness in Old-Order Amish<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nEven though they ate the high-fat, high-sugar diet typical of pre-World War II Americans &#8212; meat, potatoes, gravy, eggs, garden vegetables, bread, pies, and cakes &#8212; the Ontario Amish were remarkably fit. Only 4% were obese and only 26% were overweight.<br \/>\nHow did they do it? Hard work &#8212; and lots of foot power. Their weekly exercise was equivalent to that of long-distance runners. Men averaged 18,425 steps a day. Women averaged 14,196 daily steps.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\nThis is actually something I have always wondered about. We seem to be becoming more and more obese, yet we have more low fat foods. We have more programs like <i>Weight Watchers<\/i> only let have you eat like 1,000 calories a day. So what it the deal? It makes no sense. I guess because our predecessors really did a lot more work than your standard 30 minutes of cardio a day.<br \/>\nI also think it has to do with simply being busy all day and not having time to snack. That and not having food at your convenience all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though they ate the high-fat, high-sugar diet typical of pre-World War II Americans &#8212; meat, potatoes, gravy, eggs, garden vegetables, bread, pies, and cakes &#8212; the Ontario Amish were remarkably fit. Only 4% were obese and only 26% were overweight. How did they do it? Hard work &#8212; and lots of foot power. Their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/01\/old-time-fitnes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webcenter.health.webmd.netscape.com\/content\/article\/79\/96115.htm\">Old-Time Fitness in Old-Order Amish<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-living","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}