Broken man
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I am living in the village of 350 people, we had childrens day. I can tell you, you will find less skinny than obese and I am writting skinny because they are skinny so you have like 70% obese and 30% skinny without muscles. Its disgusting. Due to the fact that we have good nature and I know most of the kids, I can tell you that they are doing alot of activites, for example, I am playing football with them on Thursdays but its really bad, they cant outrun or outplay me even if they are 3 or 4 and I am little bit overweight. Curious thing is that I am also playing with kids from village near to where I am living and I dont have a chance there. I dont understand it.Is it possible that the increase in obesity in rural areas is due to advances in technology making people more sedentary.
Think on a farm how much technology has lessened the need for physical labour. You need less workers doing less physical tasks. Many of the physical labour jobs in rural areas have disappeared to the point where many of these rurual towns are no different to a city just less densely populated.
I'm sure there are other factors at play but I would wager the change in the type of work people do in the rural areas is a big factor also.