We have this urge to mechanize everything, to make everything easier. To reduce the physical effort required.
Overweight people get sick more and die sooner.
Another thing that really plays hell with your health is social isolation. Statistically as dangerous as smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity or lack of exercise 4. Rise in deaths from breast cancer, cancer of the white blood cells, and brain tumors over the last twenty years can be attributed to environmental factors Chemical companies put over a thousand new chemicals on the market every year. If we had the same infant mortality rate as Sweden, about 12,000 fewer babies would die in America every year. But differences in risks of death persist through childhood, adolescence, adulthood People who live to be 25 are less likely to survive until 65 than people in virtually any other advanced society Men between 15 and 34 in the U.S. are twice as likely to die as those in Japan or in the Netherlands.