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Less than 25 percent of Americans walk for more than ten minutes continuously in a typical week (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

Isn't a typical grocery store trip more than 10 minutes of walking? This seems pretty hard to believe.

[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

As others have pointed out

less than one quarter of U.S. adults in a nationally representative sample reported walking or bicycling for transportation for more than 10 minutes continuously in a typical week.

This data is probably excluding things like walking around work or grocery shopping and looking at just walking/bicycling to get from point A to point B in lieu of cars or trains. They explicitly use the term "active transportation" here.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Walking where I live has an LD50 of like 40 minutes.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

The survey seems like it's only concerned with walking when it's a means of transportation

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

what kinda god fearing american would go to the grocerie every week

[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Yo, live in NY. Buy fresh every week. Not enough room to store enough at home so the store itself is your pantry/fridge.

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

live in wiscosin. own 2 chest freezers in addition to a full size standing fridge. venture to the grocery store once every 3 weeks. buy two shopping carts full every time

[-] DerEwigeAtheist@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How do you deal with seasonal fruits and veggies? Freeze everything that doesn't last? I would hate the logistics of that, cause I often get ideas for meals while looking at whats cheap and good at the moment.

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

no true red blooded american eats "seasonal fruits and vegetables" is that some kinda DEI? real-navi-patriot

but actually in practice yeah its mass freezing bulk items they got on discount, imagine the meal planning starting with "what's in the freezer" over "what's cheap at the grocer"

[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I buy mostly fresh ingredients, so going weekly works best.

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Most Americans drive to the grocery store

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I meant walking around inside the store itself.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

its not continuous. you stop and browse and so on

[-] Firstnamebunchofnumbers@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

So like, me stopping to look at mushrooms on tbeground fucks up my continuous walking

[-] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Grocery pickup is free in most places and delivery is insanely popular.

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