Building on a post from earlier this summer, I find myself amazed at all the things that we (as grown adults who tell our children what to do) don’t do.
Today I am going to focus on the things that we as adults don’t just occasionally or rarely do, but actually never do at all. There’s nothing confusing or complicated about the question wording here. The following are things that many Americans never ever do:
- Put on sunscreen (37%)
- Floss (18%)
- Exercise (12%)
- Spend time relaxing and doing nothing (10%)
- Eat vegetables, raw or cooked (3%, though 18% eat dessert every day)
Now I’m neither a rocket scientist nor a doctor but I know NBC’s The More You Know ads aren’t there for nothing. And neither are the ones I see on the subway train and in my wife’s Self magazine. So at the risk of seeming a bit didactic, don’t we all still know enough?
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