Are We Getting Lazier? How Our Environment Promotes Weight Gain

This video discusses how global changes encourage sedentary behaviours and contribute to the rise in obesity rates through decreased NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis)


References:
- Worldwide trends in insufficient physical activity from 2001 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 358 population-based surveys with 1·9 million participants
- Active Transportation to School Trends Among U.S Schoolchildren
- Labor saved, calories lost: the energetic impact of domestic labor-saving devices.
- Trends in Sedentary Behavior Among the US Population, 2001-2016
- Changes in American children’s time – 1997 to 2003

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