Exercise in America? Grasping at Straws

This item was celebrated with headline coverage in today's NYT: "A Centers for Disease Control survey found that 62 percent of American adults took a 10-minute walk at least once a week in 2010, up from 56 percent in 2005."  FULLY  sixty-two percent! Went for at least a ten minute walk! Once a week! Well, we can confidently say that our long dark night of obesity, poor fitness and a health care crisis is COMING TO A CLOSE. As Richard III said (with similar irony): "Now the winter of our discontent is turned to glorious summer by this Son of York!"