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a lot of Americans it is anything but work. Many have desk jobs where they sit in front of a computer all day working on files, crunching numbers, designing templates, and other tasks that are quite sedentary. As a result, the population in general has become overweight causing us to become even lazier when we are not on duty at our places of employment. This in itself has brought about many medical problems we would not have if we had been more active.

There are still many Americans with jobs they perceive to be physcially demanding, such as loading heavy goods all day for shipment, and they do very little when they are not on duty because they feel exhausted. However, even these type jobs pale in comparison to the hard labor of those who came before us.

We have grown accustomed to coming in from what we think is a long, hard day at work and throwing a pre-packaged, frozen entree in the oven and call it cooking dinner for our family. We no longer bother to sit and pen a letter to a friend or family member far away. We go to our computers and quickly type a few lines to them in email before returning to our televisions. Remote controls for all our electronic equipment keeps us from having to get up out of our seats to change the channel or a CD. Even part of our furniture is now remote controlled, as are some window blinds. We can clap our hands and turn the lights on. We wake of the morning to fresh brewed coffee from the pre-set coffeemaker. We no longer have to fill ice trays for the refrigerator in order to get a glass of ice. We no longer get out of our vehicles to open the garage. Just when you think we can get no lazier a new product hits the market and everyone scrambles to purchase it. Everything in our world has become automated, push button, and convenient, too convenient for our health.

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