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While we are drowning in quick to consume, non-nutritious, calories, we also have higher levels of anxiety, stress and more distractions. To your comment, mayb

While we are drowning in quick to consume, non-nutritious, calories, we also have higher levels of anxiety, stress and more distractions. To your comment, maybe more countries should attempt to implement programs similar to the UK's success in lowering sodium intake by slowly adjusting the sodium content of all manufacturered foods. https://www.nature.com/articles/jhh2013105 https://www.nature.com/articles/jhh2013105

WalterBright 4y ago
> we also have higher levels of anxiety, stress Why should that be true? Your kids aren't going off to WW2 to die. You aren't going to starve if bugs ate your crops. You aren't going to get clubbed and robbed if you follow a forest path.
- pixl97 4y ago
  I would say our 'actual' stressors are far less, but our contrived stressors are far more. The fact I'm not going to die tomorrow from starvation is an actual reduction in stress. The fact that someone on the TV is screaming 24/7 that I'm going 'fucking die because THEY are out to get me' is a contrived stressor that has a real effect on everybody in society.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  Maybe that's the point. A lack of overt threats leads to greater trepidation over covert threats. Wouldn't you think that there was more anxiety and stress in the Cold War among the civilian population than in WWII? Certainly societal upheavals seem to indicate so.
  - WalterBright 4y ago
    > Wouldn't you think that there was more anxiety and stress in the Cold War among the civilian population than in WWII? No. I lived through part of the cold war. In WW2 everybody knew families with dead sons or sons that came back in pieces or sons that just disappeared. My neighbor in the 60s was a paratrooper, who came back missing a leg.
- selfhoster11 4y ago
  By that logic, the phenomenon of professional burnout thanks to constant stress shouldn't be a thing in IT, and yet it clearly is.

WalterBright 4y ago

> we also have higher levels of anxiety, stress Why should that be true? Your kids aren't going off to WW2 to die. You aren't going to starve if bugs ate your crops. You aren't going to get clubbed and robbed if you follow a forest path.

pixl97 4y ago
I would say our 'actual' stressors are far less, but our contrived stressors are far more. The fact I'm not going to die tomorrow from starvation is an actual reduction in stress. The fact that someone on the TV is screaming 24/7 that I'm going 'fucking die because THEY are out to get me' is a contrived stressor that has a real effect on everybody in society.
Apocryphon 4y ago
Maybe that's the point. A lack of overt threats leads to greater trepidation over covert threats. Wouldn't you think that there was more anxiety and stress in the Cold War among the civilian population than in WWII? Certainly societal upheavals seem to indicate so.
- WalterBright 4y ago
  > Wouldn't you think that there was more anxiety and stress in the Cold War among the civilian population than in WWII? No. I lived through part of the cold war. In WW2 everybody knew families with dead sons or sons that came back in pieces or sons that just disappeared. My neighbor in the 60s was a paratrooper, who came back missing a leg.
selfhoster11 4y ago
By that logic, the phenomenon of professional burnout thanks to constant stress shouldn't be a thing in IT, and yet it clearly is.