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Sure, but there's no real way of knowing whether that is "healthy" or "unhealthy" or neutral for you. That is, is it perhaps promoting some state in your body

Sure, but there's no real way of knowing whether that is "healthy" or "unhealthy" or neutral for you. That is, is it perhaps promoting some state in your body that helps with longevity and long life? Or is it eating up precious resources and making you less healthy overall? Or is it totally irrelevant to your general health levels ? Any of these could be true while still being in line with the evolutionary claim. And, of course, ALL of them may be true for different people with different body mass, other health issues, age. For example, your body has evolved such that you can walk or run even with a broken toe. Still, that doesn't mean it's a good idea to run after breaking a toe (if you can at all help it).

ekianjo 5y ago
> is it perhaps promoting some state in your body that helps with longevity and long life? Even if there is some achievable optimum, I seriously doubt it's a simple formula that can be applied to millions or billions of human beings. Complex systems are by nature complex, and we should be wary of very simple solutions and their potential to have strong effects. Also, it's probably impossible to properly design such kind of study that would take in account a large amount of factors, removing co-founding variables and strong enough to achieve a reasonable conclusion over long periods of time.