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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 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  Financial Times Mental health Oct 22, 2024 | 783 words | ★★★ ★ ☆   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.  One reason why modern, wealthy societies struggle with rising obesity, say, is that the human body is built for hunter-gathering. Place us in an environment of abundant, tasty food and comfy chairs and we put on weight. Obesity, along with atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, certain cancers, type two diabetes and other conditions are sometimes dubbed “diseases of modernity”. Of course, being very far from the env ………………………………