more municipal masturbation....just more of the obsession this society has with longevity and the fear of dying.
I bet these same people likely go to the grocery stores and get their apples, fruit and heartily go home and chomp away at it. But if you took an apple and then sprayed it with a can of Raid and then wiped it off and handed it to them, they would not eat it, but that's exactly what they do to the apples anyway, spraying much more dangerous pesticides and then bringing them back for more processing including bleaching, etc, to make them pretty and long lasting on the shelves. Or..we could get into the contaminated water supplies and the dangerous effects of chlorine on it, and the drugs present in our water from everyone flushing their pills down the toilet....I could go on for days.
But exercise KILLS too, for instance take the NY Triathalon recently where 3 people died from over-working their bodies...non-smokers, ate all the right foods, spending all their spare time exercising instead of with their families. So now we need more signs and warning labels on all exercise equipment.
People will never learn that....NOTHING MATTERS