A body active and in a movement throughout the day is good medicine combating, depression, anxiety, etc
Granted, today everyone has gym memberships exercise routines, bicycles etc but we have more distractions today in a more complicated life. And our diet has largely changed.
Society today seems much more overweight on average.
I've often wondered could people today handle how physical life used to be 100 plus years ago?.
My parents, aunts and uncles lives growing up was vastly different even than mine in the '50s '60s '70s.
My children's lives were vastly different from mine growing up. I didn't have the distractions as a youngster that they did.
There were four TV channels. That's it. No streaming, no DVDs videos gaming. You wanted to play a game you walked to the bowling alley for the pinball machine or bowling, ride your bike to the river with friends to swim. We walked and rode our bikes everywhere