I think you are absolutely right about that, Chatty! We have become "conveniently" lazy. I remember my parents and grandparents always walking places. My grandpa would walk his farm on a regular basis checking things over seeing if fences needed repaired, or if the woods needed cut back off of the fields, berry picking, mushroom hunting, cut grass with a push mower....not a rider. Yep,they did alot of walking. Still had thier original kness and hips at 93 too.