“let us bust the myth of physical activity and obesity. You cannot outrun a bad diet”

[KitSileya]

111. Yeah, American households have refrigerators.

What about those living out of their car, or on someone's couch, motel rooms or spare room above someone's garage. If they have refrigerators, they're most often dorm room sized, and have practically no fridge unit.

I spend parts of the year in the US, and while there, the only place to walk is roads with long stretches of no sidewalk, unless I have a car so that I can drive to outdoors areas. If I bike, I risk my life every time. Half the year, it is far too hot to walk during the day, and it doesn't cool down until after dark. Too much street harassment to risk it. During the winter, the snow isn't shoveled but in the car lanes.

Where I live in Norway, I only need to walk out my door and amble down the street, and I find a lane that leads to hiking trails. Should I want to go somewhere else, bus routes are deliberately set up so that I have access to trails on all sides of the city - departure every 10 minutes, and if I want to bike, bike lanes in and out of center of town. Both bike lanes and sidewalks are cleared of snow within 12 hours during winter, of course. If it is medically necessary, but you cannot afford it yourself, a gym membership can be prescribed by your doctor and the payment falls under the same rules as other medicine (poor people get medication for free, those who can afford to pay, pay only up to a certain sum.)

As for apartments, yes, those living in motel rooms, on people's couches etc have trouble finding space enough to exercise. What's more, they often also have trouble finding the energy to exercise. America's poor have the deck stacked against them, and too many don't want to admit that keeping fit is much harder to do for many people than for their own suburban, middle-class self. It's a very peculiar American blindness to anything but bootstrap thinking. I despise it.