How to get people to use the stairs? Make it fun. Lesson from Stockholm
Inspirational idea. Maybe someone in the US could try this. The obesity rate in Sweden is about 1/3 that of US -- seems folks in the US are the ones who need to take the stairs more.
I like the idea of leveraging fun to change behavior. Concerning fitness/health, I never understood why people suffer through diet after diet. Dieting ain't fun -- no way, no how. It's miserable. No surprise that compliance rates with dieting are so low, especially in the long-term. Humans love fun (duh!). Much better it seems to me to change lifestyle in a way that is healthy *enjoyable* and *fun*. I am not sure if kids still play outside back in the US, but I hardly was in the house as a kid -- and that's in rainy Oregon! We never asked our parents if we could go outside "to exercise," we asked if we could "go play!" Why did we stop? Anyway, I like the fun theory and appreciate this video.
