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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by criley2 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:00PM (#32975422)
You can develop a days worth of vitamin D in 15 minutes (or simply supplement it for the same benefits), meanwhile excessive sun exposure is correlated with all manner of health problems, not the least of which is cancer. People who spend more time outdoors tend to die younger.

Again, progress trumps tradition.

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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by throwaway202022 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:07PM (#32975521)
> People who spend more time outdoors tend to die younger.

Source for this? Searching for the claim only turned up results saying more time outdoors is associated with better long-term health outcomes.

Also: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpect...

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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by uoaei on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:47AM (#32979819)
People who spend all their time indoors (in front of screens) will seek to justify their lifestyles, just as those who spend their time outdoors will seek to justify theirs. There is nothing rational about pre-supposing that your personal habits represent some sort of optimium: it is only through careful study that benefits and costs may be determined.
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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by codemonkey-zeta on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:03PM (#32975462)
Imagining a life of merely 15 minutes outside sounds miserable. It's also about the psychological benefits of sunlight exposure.
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