I've seen a similar article about the Australian natives who walked 5-9 miles per day.
10 miles a day doesn't sound like a remarkable amount to me at all.
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#22It's been interesting to watch the health and fitness space around brain health and correlations with diet and exercise. People seem to finally be converging around some common truths that have been known for thousands of years. I All roads seem to be pointing towards finding a balance between what we are evolved for as a species and modern life.
We didn't know anything about diet thousands of years ago beyond "this tastes nice" and "I'm hungry", we merely endured starvation, prions, and scurvy… or died because we couldn't endure it. Sometimes we just got lucky with good fishing or fertile farmland, but we were never in control. I'm not confident enough about the history of exercise to make an equivalent claim for that.
From my own readings, fowl meat was known to be healthy to the Greeks, and Cabbage was a stereotypical prescription to sick Romans.
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We didn't know anything about diet thousands of years ago beyond "this tastes nice" and "I'm hungry", we merely endured starvation, prions, and scurvy… or died because we couldn't endure it. Sometimes we just got lucky with good fishing or fertile farmland, but we were never in control. I'm not confident enough about the history of exercise to make an equivalent claim for that.
Yet we clearly prioritized certain foods and the human body adapted around those foods. Over time tribes converged on what plants were safe to eat (and which had defense chemicals that didn't make them suitable to eat), and prioritized certain animals for hunting. One thing I find interesting with that is how tightly coupled mongol armies were to an animal based diet, and how they reportedly looked down on farming an…
> they reportedly looked down on farming and agrarian societies.
I think a really solid case can be made that agriculture was the biggest mistake humans have made.
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the "mystery" is part of it it creates a curiosity, which has a softkind of drawing gravitational pull. I know I'm vulnerable to this. The mystery drives motivation, hence the connection to energy (the capacity to do work). the curiosity propels my own motivation (willingness to spend my energy) to investigate these things, and others like it. edit: I am sorry that what I have had to think to make my own sense of thi…
This kind of nonsense drivel detracts from fact based critiques of current realities. Do you at least propose something to be done or is it all just mumbo-jumbo?
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This kind of nonsense drivel detracts from fact based critiques of current realities. Do you at least propose something to be done or is it all just mumbo-jumbo?
It is not nonsense. But I don't agree with the electricity part thou.
Ah yes, "is not", a timeless counter argument
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10 miles a day doesn't sound like a remarkable amount to me at all.
What portion of humanity do you think actually move that much?
The majority, or reasonably close to it, I imagine. The average American walks about 2 miles per day (about half what is considered the minimum recommended amount -- and half of what the average American child walks), and I rather suspect that most of the world walks more than the average american.
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Yet we clearly prioritized certain foods and the human body adapted around those foods. Over time tribes converged on what plants were safe to eat (and which had defense chemicals that didn't make them suitable to eat), and prioritized certain animals for hunting. One thing I find interesting with that is how tightly coupled mongol armies were to an animal based diet, and how they reportedly looked down on farming an…
> they reportedly looked down on farming and agrarian societies. I think a really solid case can be made that agriculture was the biggest mistake humans have made.
Yeah, starving sounds awesome, hate that so many people will miss out on it.
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#29It's been interesting to watch the health and fitness space around brain health and correlations with diet and exercise. People seem to finally be converging around some common truths that have been known for thousands of years. I All roads seem to be pointing towards finding a balance between what we are evolved for as a species and modern life.
We didn't know anything about diet thousands of years ago beyond "this tastes nice" and "I'm hungry", we merely endured starvation, prions, and scurvy… or died because we couldn't endure it. Sometimes we just got lucky with good fishing or fertile farmland, but we were never in control. I'm not confident enough about the history of exercise to make an equivalent claim for that.
As an aside, ancient cultural knowledge for finding and preparing food is surprisingly sophisticated and non-obvious [1], even if it does not lend itself to an explicit rational model:
> A reasonable person would have asked why everyone was wasting so much time preparing manioc. When told “Because that’s how we’ve always done it”, they would have been unsatisfied with that answer. They would have done some experiments, and found that a simpler process of boiling it worked just as well. They would have saved lots of time, maybe converted all their friends to the new and easier method. Twenty years later, they would have gotten sick and died, in a way so causally distant from their decision to change manioc processing methods that nobody would ever have been able to link the two together.
[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...
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> they reportedly looked down on farming and agrarian societies. I think a really solid case can be made that agriculture was the biggest mistake humans have made.
Yeah, starving sounds awesome, hate that so many people will miss out on it.
Pre-agricultural peoples didn't generally do much starving, and it's not like people now don't starve.