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Re:What's the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and e... by 3131s on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:35PM (#15426730)
> They're not happier or healthier or longer-lived than the western world. In fact, the overall high-level trend appears to be that happiness is correlated with being sedentary.

Source?

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Re:What's the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and e... by throwaway0255 on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:53PM (#15426769)
This is completely self-evident and not even controversial, but here you go:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Wo...

Agrarian populations spend all their time doing hard labor to earn basic necessities like food, water and shelter. That sucks and they're less happy.

People in western nations live longer and move less. The correlation is pretty obvious.

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Re:What's the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and e... by 3131s on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:41PM (#15435845)
That chart is not a source for your claim. Not really interested in arguing the point further.
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