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Would it pay for the government to pay people for daily walking?
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The state governments, and governments around the world, force everyone to compulsory education. Do you believe they should not do this as well? I do. But with healthcare we are stuck with no end in sight of outrageous high costs, gross waste, and worse of all, bad health for most people. If the government paid for people to walk there would be significant immediate and particularly long-term cost savings and all the other health, environment and societal benefits listed above. As someone noted above it could all be tracked on a smart watch and be administered by a simple program.
Also, an interesting question, If governments force compulsory education for the benefit of society why not force everyone to walk?
Personally I just want a government to keep me safe. I'll do the rest for myself.
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Hi Robertwills,
You've been around long enough to know the name Dr. Atkins. He went before the FDA in the 70's to tell them that the food pyramid government was telling us all to use for HEALTH, was going to cause massive obesity and diabetes to run amuk in this Country. They all but threw him out and laughed at him the entire time. THAT SAME FOOD PYRAMID is still with us today, and look at what we have with people eating all the carbs and deep fried foods, and children being raised on macaroni and cheese and spaghetti and noodles and sandwiches and pizza, and don't forget the pop and breakfast with sugary-laden cereals or toaster treats.
We not only have a population suffering from massive obesity, but obese children suffering from Type II diabetes from eating all the garbage the government pushed and is still pushing. Children who can barely pull themselves up monkey bars and cannot do a chin-up whatsoever. They took physical education out of the schools that encouraged children to be active. They put in sports which many kids can't afford to take part in just to purchase the shoes they need to wear to play.
Are you aware in Italy, spaghetti is served in a small side dish, often plain, and made fresh. Bring that dish to the United States and load it up with spaghetti sauce loaded with salt, red dyes, thickeners that cause cancer, and we eat it as the main course, not a small 1/4 cup side dish. Pizza wasn't enough to binge on, so let's add cheese-filled bread sticks rolled in salt and Parmesan, to see if the body can digest all of that before trying to call it a day.
I have walked 4 miles a day since I was 28, and when I hit 72 I got a little dog whose joints I don't want to injure so we walk 2 miles most days and 3 on others, with the additional mile being at his favorite place -- the doggie park -- where he sprints all over the place, up and down hills.
I walk for my health and for my enjoyment. I can find beauty in the clouds, snow flakes, sunshine, the birds, flowers, trees when they start budding in the spring and leaves when they change color. If people need incentives to do what they should do for their own health and longevity, then they never learned to enjoy the small things in life that are free to everyone capable of partaking. The government paying someone to walk would only enlist more government interference in our lives and encourage those who already cheat the system to find more ways to cheat the system at taxpayer expense.