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Natural Physical Activity
publication date: Apr 14, 2011
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author/source: Art
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So many training protocols recommend activities our ancestors would never have done. Natives laugh at visiting anthropologists who go out jogging. It wastes energy, produces nothing, and is far from fun (unless you are into that form of competition). Children don't do it, bees don't do it. The gym grinders, Biggest Losers trainers, are no better. An ancestor would do very grueling things, not to burn calories, but to survive. And they would be over rather quickly.
A fan of The New Evolution Diet and a practicing clinical psychologist has taken on the reluctance of humans to do these things. His point is "the cross-sectional, “tabula rasa” view of human psychology fails to explain the sheer truculence of most humans, this author included, to diligently undertake that which they know to be good for them." He points to the lack of evolutionary pressure to develop brain circuits that prevent overeating. He is extending my "lazy overeater" point of human pyschology. Here is a link to Dr. Graham's article. |