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It is always amazing to people how much diet and exercise affect their health This is true. It is equally amazing to me how much abuse the human body can take
by Evgeny 14y ago
It is always amazing to people how much diet and exercise affect their health
This is true. It is equally amazing to me how much abuse the human body can take before it actually breaks down. Sometimes I think it would be better if the results of bad dietary or exercise habits revealed themselves faster - I suppose it would be more convincing and easier to undo the damage.
- gfunk911 14y agoThis is a very interesting observation. Fail fast....
- marcosdumay 14y agoNot a very good tought when you can only fail once.
- jacques_chester 14y agoFail fast is a search rule that makes sense for a startup business. The all-up cost (including opportunity cost) to exploit an unprofitable niche is so high relative to the cost of exploration that it's sensible to jump out of weak local optima and keep moving. It is not a universal rule of infinite wisdom. Not all situations are startup businesses.
- enjo 14y agoEven worse, undoing the damage can take a very long time. It's hard to make the change to exercising and eating right when the results (energy and the like) can be months away.
- Maakuth 14y agoOne has to remember that our bodies' ability to cope with all sorts of diets and environmental factors was most probably a very beneficial thing for prehistoric man. For them it wasn't possible to just change their diet or lifestyle, if their tribe didn't catch game in some time, coping with less nutrient food was essential. And vice versa, when they got some meat, it was good that the body stored fat so they could survive until the next kill. For us, it could be nice if bad lifestyle choices manifested themselves faster in our condition, but that would have killed our ancestors.