Productive Movement, or Why Treadmills Bore Me to Death

Sometime in the last fractious decade I read an article that caused a great kerfuffle about the average increase in the weight of the American woman over the last fifty or so years. Its clickbait title said something about the decline in hours that women spend doing housework, which was, I assume, what people were irritated about. The truth is that everyone’s average weight has increased (except fashion models’) due to a veritable buffet of reasons, especially the availability of higher calor...