Fitness prediction from 1901: We'll all walk 10 miles with ease
Posted on Sep 29th 2007 11:31AM by Martha EdwardsFiled Under: Diet & Weight Loss
I found this article from one of my favourite Internet indulgences. It's an excerpt from Ladies Home Journal in 1901, and it's a series of predictions for where the world will be in 100 years. It's pretty interesting. I suggest you have a look.
In there, there's a bunch of food predictions -- strawberries as large as apples and peas as large of beats are two of them -- and there's even a couple of predictions on the health and fitness of people in the new millennium:
Everybody Will Walk 10 Miles. Gymnastics will begin in the nursery where toys and games will be designed to strengthen the muscles. Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. A man or woman unable to walk 10 miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling. Um ... right. It was wishful thinking to assume that Americans would get healthier -- we seem to have done the opposite, in fact.
The American Will Be Taller by one or two inches. He will live 50 years. Well, this one is true! In fact, we've exceeded the prediction, as life expectancy has passed 50 -- by over 20 years!
Do you think the Ladies Home Journal would be disappointed to find out what we've done in 100 years?
In there, there's a bunch of food predictions -- strawberries as large as apples and peas as large of beats are two of them -- and there's even a couple of predictions on the health and fitness of people in the new millennium:
Everybody Will Walk 10 Miles. Gymnastics will begin in the nursery where toys and games will be designed to strengthen the muscles. Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. A man or woman unable to walk 10 miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling. Um ... right. It was wishful thinking to assume that Americans would get healthier -- we seem to have done the opposite, in fact.
The American Will Be Taller by one or two inches. He will live 50 years. Well, this one is true! In fact, we've exceeded the prediction, as life expectancy has passed 50 -- by over 20 years!
Do you think the Ladies Home Journal would be disappointed to find out what we've done in 100 years?
