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I don't think most Americans are fat entirely because they're lazy. If you wanna see lazy try dealing with Europeans. Seriously. The problem imo is that we are mostly obese because we work too hard. A friend pointed out to me last night that a lot of the companies who have the resources for employee gyms rarely give them time to use them. Corporate culture has an intrinsically unbalanced expectation of work hours, especially in the higher pressure, deadline driven fields. Working 50-60+ hours a week doesn't leave you with much time or energy to do anything aside from sleep, take care of household duties and of course work.

Indeed laziness, our increasingly sedintary lifestyle and hormone, carb, fat and alcohol filled diets play no small part in this dynamic, but so does work, and it's such an easily solvable problem. I propose that companies should not only offer an hour of unpaid time daily for lunch but an additional 1-3 hours of unpaid time for daily exercise and just have people work 9-8 instead of 9-5. Yes, I'm sure people would use the time for something other than exercise, but I would estimate that allowing people the opportunity to exercise at a point during the day when they are the most awake and energetic (typically about noon) would make them more prone to embrace healthier lifestyle choices. Most of us who have lived in the corporate world are used to being at work until 8 on the regular anyway, and being able to go and blast it out in the gym during the day would make people have the energy to keep up with the demands of their jobs. The hours are there in the day to accomplish everything we need to, I just think the schedule needs to be adjusted.

That being said I hope to never work for starched shirt wearing golf vampires again. My lard ass is going to hit the bench like a man and start cranking off some miles when I get settled in Greece. I have no excuse whatsoever. I'm coming back next year lean.