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NYT bestselling author (The Comfort Crisis, Scarcity Brain). I write Two Percent, the #1 Health/Wellness Substack newsletter and host the Two Percent podcast.
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The 1908 fix for “sickly, weedy, stunted” people

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By Michael Easter
| 2 Percent with Michael Easter
In his 1908 book The Way To Live In Health & Physical Fitness, the legendary strongman George Hackenschmidt noted “an all-round degeneration of physique.” He wrote1: There are fewer plagues and pestilences, but there would appear to be an infinitely greater number of sickly, weedy, stunted people than there used to be. The reason is not far to seek.
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A Harvard Professor Tested Popular Diets on Himself | Dan Lieberman

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By Michael Easter
| 2 Percent with Michael Easter
If you’ve read my books The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain or read Two Percent, you know Dan Lieberman. He’s influenced my work more than anyone else. Dan is an evolutionary biologist at Harvard. His new book is Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating.
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Break Rules

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By Michael Easter
| 2 Percent with Michael Easter
When I was a kid, a couple of my friends had swimming pools. Their parents would often feed us lunch—then switch into dictator mode with a strict rule: No swimming for 30 minutes. Were we to get in the pool immediately after eating, they told us, we’d cramp up, plummet to the bottom, and die a waterlogged death. But two things: The rule is complete bullshit. We rarely question it or ask where it came from. The rule goes back to 1908, when Robert Baden-Powell put it in the original Boy Scout handbook.
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