Hmm, good point. This would suggest, in pre-industrial cultures, a higher proportion of these kinds of health problems among the upper classes, particularly upper-class women. I wonder if that data is available. (It's not as simple as health problems, of course; the lower classes had plenty of those too, just different ones -- malnutrition rather than calcium deficiencies, etc.)
I suspect that the "right" answer is a choice between taking an ax to your computer or taking vitamins.
Oh, trust me -- my answer to that one is going to be "pass that economy-sized jar, will ya?". I don't long for the good old days of earning my daily bread by the literal sweat of my brow.
This would suggest, in pre-industrial cultures, a higher proportion of these kinds of health problems among the upper classes, particularly upper-class women.
Not necessarily--in pre-industrial cultures, everybody was getting more exercise, not just the downtrodden masses. Walking is walking, whether you're a gentleman taking an afternoon constitutional or a farmer steering a plough-and-oxen :-)
This is a question I've been reading and thinking a lot about lately myself. I second the suggestion of Omnivore's Dilemma, it's a good read (great for plane rides, I found, very engaging
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I suspect that the "right" answer is a choice between taking an ax to your computer or taking vitamins.
Oh, trust me -- my answer to that one is going to be "pass that economy-sized jar, will ya?". I don't long for the good old days of earning my daily bread by the literal sweat of my brow.
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Not necessarily--in pre-industrial cultures, everybody was getting more exercise, not just the downtrodden masses. Walking is walking, whether you're a gentleman taking an afternoon constitutional or a farmer steering a plough-and-oxen :-)
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If that doesn't help, let me know and I'll try to be useful. 8^)
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