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Isn't it surprising that just eating real food (clean diet), not smoking or drinking and walking a little everyday can cut all cause mortality like in half, lea

Isn't it surprising that just eating real food (clean diet), not smoking or drinking and walking a little everyday can cut all cause mortality like in half, leaving you younger, healthier and more mentally engaged. Those changes in lifestyle for some is hard work, not everyone is cut out for it. Shame they don't think it's worth saving themselves and prefer the taste of pills to healthy food. I sort of figure it's Natural Selection at play, all these folks who choose to poison themselves and embrace chronic illness as something that is inevitable will eventually fall out of the Gene pool, unfortunately the destruction they cause during and on the way out costs all of us an enormous amount of resources.

JackFr 5y ago
> I sort of figure it's Natural Selection at play, all these folks who choose to poison themselves and embrace chronic illness as something that is inevitable will eventually fall out of the Gene pool, unfortunately the destruction they cause during and on the way out costs all of us an enormous amount of resources. That’s not how natural selection works. Men over the age of 50 father less than %1 of babies, and it’s lower than that for women. So if a tendency to embrace chronic pathological behaviors is genetic, the offspring will be born long before the behavior catches up with them. Things get a little more complicated because of the inter generational support networks. The older generation does support their offspring, but at eventually will need support, and take resources from the breeding cohort. Which is the only cohort natural selection cares about.