> So clearly going back to this pattern won't necessarily make everyone sleep better. And so "modernity" is not the issue, and the problem does not have a simpl

> So clearly going back to this pattern won't necessarily make everyone sleep better. And so "modernity" is not the issue, and the problem does not have a simple solution. Yes, you can have a sleep pathology, and overweight can be the symptom of a pathology too - not to mention that you might have no weight problem at all, it might be that your genetic heritage makes you an outlier ; just as there are "naturally" skinny people or people that only need 5 hours of sleep. But the thing TFA questions is the exploitation of mere difficulties experienced by healthy people. Basically it says, stop buying snake oil. > Telling overweight people to eat less is like telling an alcoholic to drink less, or a depressed person to cheer up. It's pointless, silly, and naive and it won't work. Those are used as, indeed, simple examples - which include topics that are not related to health and well-being. The real message, though, is that you should analyze the problem you have before falling for snake oil. If you can't figure out by yourself what are the root causes of your problem, it resists a priori reasoning and you are probably in the left part of the "law of decomplication" curve - a person with a specific problem (i.e. a pathology). In this case, sure, the right move is to go see a specialist.