The New Age Cavemen and the City
because it's on the NYTimes Fashion page.
OK, I can't resist posting some of the fun stuff:
Andrew Sanocki, 38, a former Navy officer, explained that he preferred working out on an empty stomach near the end of a fast, and then following up with a large meal. This is a common caveman schedule, intended to reflect the exertion that ancient humans put into finding food. It is as if, Mr. Sanocki explained, “we’ve gone out and killed something, and now we have to eat it.”
Another caveman trick involves donating blood frequently. The idea is that various hardships might have occasionally left ancient humans a pint short. Asked when he last gave blood, Andrew Sanocki said it had been three months. He and his brother looked at each other. “We’re due,” Andrew said.
I met someone once who had been taught by a professor who believed that the development of agriculture was the beginning of human decline -- a theory based in part on the idea that only depressed people would voluntarily give up hunting and gathering to stay in one place and grow stuff. Sigh.
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