Prosperity

Luigino Bruni ()

A chapter in A Lexicon of Social Well-Being, 2015, pp 100-102 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There are many good reasons why more and more people go jogging in parks, bike through the streets, or even do calisthenics on the beach. Clearly, our bodies have yet to adapt to the fact that the world — or at least most of it — has changed. We still find greasy, high-calorie foods more attractive than vegetables and lean meals, which makes sense when we think that for roughly one hundred thousand years (the period of early homo sapiens) the necessary calories for hunting, keeping warm, escaping from predators, and surviving were scarce.

Keywords: Junk Food; Excess Calorie; Early Homo; Community Asset; Patriarchal Family (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889_27

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