I was piqued by the exercise references. Too bad that wasn't expounded upon...seems to me exercise may well be the best choice in deburring a stressful life. The best but difficult in ways beyond mere brow wiping after some 'routine' and 'hey, chaulked up another one.' Physical exertion...it's an option now. A game...even reduced to some pop culture mating ritual for Christs sake...not so much a natural result of living with less. Not much at all...in our culture anyway.

Sedentary life...that's a fair new concept isn't it? By and large? The 50s post-war booms perhaps ushering in this modern concept?

Ah but we have pills potions and psyguys to buffer this improved lifestyle. Preferable? No...just the way things have evolved here. Science is trumping the natural. Well science had just better focus on ways to change our progressive culture. Haha...we'll fight against the dying light like our lives depend on it! Just eat better and move your arses folks. Maybe something unfailing WILL happen to encourage us en masse...until then articles will be written and folks will fret. Ah us mortals be...fighting the reaper and ignorantly denying time.

I'll vote for the trad stress views. It wracks and wreaks. The numbers
seem to prove that. Anyway lessons in free will would perhaps benefit our pore hearts and minds best...hah! Or at least as well as anything else could if one shuns health as key to the equation.