Discussion for article #223280
“Modernization has not been good for health,” said Syed Shah, an obesity expert at United Arab Emirates University, who found obesity rates have jumped five times in the last 20 years even in a handful of remote Himalayan villages in Pakistan. His research was presented this week at a conference in Bulgaria. “Years ago, people had to walk for hours if they wanted to make a phone call,” he said. “Now everyone has a cellphone.”
Well years ago, people were lazy. Before having a phone every couple miles they had to walk all the way to the person they wanted to talk to and interact with them as human beings.
Honestly, I will start worrying about people who die of obesity in their 60s sometime after we no longer have to worry about kids dying younger than 5 because they have no food.
Modernization has been amazing for health. Obesity isn’t the ideal, but it is a shed-load better than starving to death.
A world growing more American by the day! Yay!
Well, there are plenty of studies out there showing our brains react to food, or at least sugar, salt and fat in much the same ways as they do for addictive drugs. It’s no suprise that once people find a cheap and legal way to hit the happy button, they keep doing it to their own detriment.
Sounds like nature correcting itself to me. Survival of the fittest in action.