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10 miles a day doesn't sound like a remarkable amount to me at all.
I've been trying to do 5 miles a day, and only seem to average about 3.5.
whooosh!
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> history of exercise is just living The Greeks and Romans intentionally exercised outside daily toils.
The rich slave owning Greeks and Romans while not marching to another battle? Do we know anything about the exercise habits of the poor (other than the dude in the bathtub) or the slaves?
> rich slave owning Greeks and Romans while not marching to another battle?
Yes.
> Do we know anything about the exercise habits of the poor (other than the dude in the bathtub) or the slaves?
This is a notorious blind spot in our knowledge of our antiquity. It’s partly why the ruins at Pompeii were so interesting.
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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.
Agricultural societies outcompeted hunter-gatherers pretty much everywhere.
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I don't see how that points to a global average of walking distance that would make 10 miles a trivial amount.
I never said 10 was a trivial amount. Only that it didn't seem remarkably high. The US is unusual in that we drive a lot more than most of the world, which eliminates a lot of walking. So I'm making the inference that Americans walk a lot less than most of the world. I just checked my own records, and on average I walk about 6 miles/day. EDIT: I tried to find what the global average is, but (understandably) there is…
>I never said 10 was a trivial amount. Only that it didn't seem remarkably high.
You're just copping out now
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I never said 10 was a trivial amount. Only that it didn't seem remarkably high. The US is unusual in that we drive a lot more than most of the world, which eliminates a lot of walking. So I'm making the inference that Americans walk a lot less than most of the world. I just checked my own records, and on average I walk about 6 miles/day. EDIT: I tried to find what the global average is, but (understandably) there is…
>I never said 10 was a trivial amount. Only that it didn't seem remarkably high. You're just copping out now
Not even remotely. My other comments in this thread demonstrate this, I think. But clearly you're more interested in misrepresenting or misunderstanding my position in order to have someone to demonize.
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#67Maybe we'll finally come around to the idea that intelligence is not the be-all, end-all... wisdom deserves respect too. Of course first we'll nearly annihilate ourselves, but whatever, you people want that to happen so get on with it. (rage-downvote harder while you're at it, truth hurts don't it.)