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The human race is suffering from success
Treating today’s mental and physical conditions may be a challenge, but their prevalence is actually a good sign.
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Obesity, Type 2 diabetes and other conditions are sometimes dubbed 'diseases of modernity'.
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Stephen Bush
The human race is suffering from success.
Our own ingenuity, our capacity to keep inventing and innovating, means that almost all of us live not just geographically but more importantly technologically a million miles away from the “EEA”: the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.
