Great read if you're interested in the human body and how it's changed through all the shifts in cultural development. It opened my eyes to several symptoms of modern living, like the rise in myopia due to indoor living, and the consequences of sitting around too much. We haven't adequately evolved into these post-agricultural and industrial living conditions yet. Even though our bodies have benefited from medical findings in the last few centuries, they are finding it difficult to keep up with the sedentary lifestyles that machines have given us. You can see this through what the author calls an alarming increase in "mismatch diseases", diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart failure, which are due to the excesses of our modern diet and the general lack of exercise. From an evolutionary perspective it all makes sense, and reading this was a refreshing wake up call. Keep those bodies moving, like they were meant to.
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