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Quote by: Osborn F Enready I say:
I disagree.
People who are part of successful cultures who have adapted well to technology overall, are much healthier OVERALL. Individually, there are cases of extremely poor shape, as well as the other extreme.
Technology provides more choice to individuals, therefore individuals will choose to focus on what THEY value as a person, not what SOCIETY needs.
When I didn't have to worry about my food spending, and had time and money to work out as I pleased, I stayed in great shape. Once my income was slashed, I had to eat on a budget, and can no longer afford the gym. Those combined removed a lot of my "incentive" to stay in shape. I still could stay in shape more, if I did more at home to supplement my workouts, and worked harder to prepare my meals, but I don't as the incentive is not worth the labor involved. |
Compare a section of Westerners to Masaii, Aussie Aboriginals or Maori living their traditional lifestyles. You'll see the difference. For a start, compare their teeth.
Agrarian society is one that has it's diets heavily based upon grains, and grains are NOT natural foods for humans. The only species designed to eat them are bids. They place a massive amount of stress on the body, bloating the pancreas as it attempts to produce enough gastric juices to keep up, similtaneously draining the body of vitamens and minerals. Hunter gatherer society however has a good balance between meat/fish, dairy and fruit/veg,
supplemented by grains occaisionally.
Individually, agrarian society can produce strong, healthy people, but as a society it turns out poor specimens. And you'll notice those strong healthy people run right against the grain of modern society in terms of diet and lifestyle. Hell, a lot of people around me consider me vain and obsessed because I regularly go to the gym and take care with my diet, when that's certainly not the case. Now I'll admit that a lot of this has developed over the last sixty-seventy years, with the rise of processed foods and ass-on-chair jobs, but these have only replaced the other diet and lifestyle problems of the past such as rickets and scurvy. In turn, agrarian societies problems replaced hunter-gatherer ones - insecurity of food supply, susceptibility to changes in environment.
Most people in modern society are weak, plagued by illness induced by bad diet, lifestyle, environment and stress.