Study: When kids become teens, they get sluggish

Really?

"One of the largest studies of its kind shows just how sluggish American children become once they hit the teen years: While 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do.

What's more, the study suggests that fewer than a third of teens that age get even the minimum recommended by the government — an hour of moderate-to-vigorous exercise, like cycling, brisk walking, swimming or jogging."

Of course, government "exercise" recommendations are insane.

"The new findings come just a week after an influential pediatricians group recommended that more children have their cholesterol checked and that some as young as 8 should be given cholesterol-lowering drugs. That advice was partly out of concern over future levels of heart disease and other ailments linked to rising rates of childhood obesity.

The latest study, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, tracked about 1,000 U.S. children at various ages, from 2000 until 2006."

Of course, AMA weight loss recommendations are insane.

But none of this is the point.

The point is that no increase in BMI would occur and no one would become overweight/obese when activity fell if people learned the skills to controlling caloric intake.

But since diet advice is insane, people never learn the skills.

Adults fail, so they fail their kids.

"'Making exercise fun is important, because if you do, you won't even realize if you're exercising,' she said."

And BTW, this "making exercise fun is important" stuff is crap.

Teaching kids and adults that not everything that is good for you is fun is way more important.

Fun is not a necessary condition precedent to success or satisfaction or achievement or accomplishment.

I do not find paying for the illnesses of these slothful, irresponsible adults and their fat, sick kids fun.

Can I opt out?

Can you?

F**k 'em. Let them pay for themselves.

Now that might be fun.