[extropy-chat] Failure of low-fat diet

[Robin Hanson]

At 10:43 AM 2/24/2006, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky  wrote:
> >... Mammals invoke the stress response in situations
> > they consider stressful, which helps the devote energy to their muscles
> > at the expense of other systems such as the immune system.   This reduces
> > long term health.   As humans become richer they interpret fewer events as
> > being stressful and invoke the stress response less often, and so are
> > healthier.
>
>But what about all the research showing that becoming richer doesn't
>decrease stress?  ...you know, it's amazingly hard to help people, isn't it.

I had heard that richer humans tend to invoke the stress response less, as
measured by relevant hormones in the blood.






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