On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:40 PM, JoelMatthews <[email protected]> wrote:

> A lot of stuff I have been reading points out for most of our
> existence, humans were hunter gatherers who spent most every waking
> hour on the move.  Constant movement and repetition is natural for our
> bodies.  Perhaps there are some who do not fit the norm.
>

>From what I have read, hunter gatherers spent a good part of the day asleep
or idle, working an average of 4 hours/day, though there might be periods of
long days and others of complete idleness. The same for traditional farmers,
I gather, though more work and less leisure; but neither the 10 hour day-in
and day-out treadmill of the modern wage slave.

*And* I read that your average hunter gatherer in an average period
(interspersed of course with occasional periods of famine) enjoyed a better
diet -- with respect to overall nutrition and healthiness -- than most of us
do.

The pastoralists and old fashion farmers that that I saw as a boy 40+ years
ago (eg, pre tourist hinterland Nepal; backwoods Kikuyu) certainly didn't
look undernourished or unhappy -- quite the contrary.

*I* think our bodies and souls are designed for interspersed periods of
effort and rest; cyclic, as most things in nature -- like bicycle wheels and
pedaling and steering.

Beetle grubs ... Mmmmm.


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Patrick Moore
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