The theme of the day seems to center around generational atrophy of mind, body and character. My previous post bemoaned Western leadership. We have a bunch of thumb suckers compared to thirty years ago. A study on men’s health has rendered the same conclusion.
Think you’d beat
your dad in an arm wrestling competition when he was your age? Bad news: he’d
probably kick your ass.
Men today are
weaker than they were 30 years ago, research in the Journal
of Hand Therapy found.
In the study,
men aged 20-34 have lower grip and pinch strength – which measures how strong
your hand and upper extremities are – than the same aged guys did three decades
ago.
In fact, the
average grip strength for men ages 25-29 is nearly 12 kilograms lower
today than it was before.
Your grip may
not seem super important unless you’re a competitive arm wrestler, but it
actually serves as a good proxy of your overall strength.
Weakness in mind, body and character. We shouldn’t be surprised when Hillary
Clinton takes the oath of office next January.
It’s a testament to how low our country has fallen.
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