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This seems fairly superficial. I suspect that if you factored in where people are living (suburbs versus urban areas), age would seem to make less of a difference.

I'm barely within the 18-25 range, and I walk everywhere. I live downtown and don't drive, and I suspect that I get far more exercise than a middle-aged person who lives in the suburbs and drives to work, the grocery store, and wherever else they need to go.

The article comes off very much as old people wanting to look down on the habits of the young, but I very easily feel the same way about suburbanites who drive into my neighbourhood, almost kill all the pedestrians at cross-walks, and block up the streets by milling about and walking as slowly as possible from the parkades to the restaurants.