Run Your Eyes Over This, If It's Not Too Strenuous for You

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Walk through a clothing store and you’ll see rack after rack of “activewear,” all tailored to accommodate vigorous motion. Like off-road vehicles that never leave the pavement, much of this apparel is doomed to spend its life on the bodies of people who do nothing more active than walk to the refrigerator. If consumers faced the truth about how they spend their time, clothiers would prosper by selling sedentarywear. A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics documents just how inert people have become.

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