Readit NewsNorth Korea infamously refuses foreign aid, do you have a source that describes more in detail the aid you're referring to?
Here's more details about the aid I'm referring to.
700,000 tonnes in 1999 alone, from one country.
And, any way, the North Koreans started it.
-Bad conditions for eyes leads to growing amounts of glasses wearers, glasses make an active healthy lifestyle harder, early health development seems really important (playing physically as a kid) putting glasses on kids seems a terrible thing, and worse, people act like this is normal.
-The types of food we eat, and our bad breathing habits (maybe from posture or air pollution), maybe even our tongue posture, leave us with poor jawlines, poor facial structure.
-Our disconnect from the natural world leaves us unwhole.
-The extreme of either sedentary lifestyles (office worker) or too repetitively physical (warehouse worker) breaks people down.
Its really sad, most people I see today seem really unhealthy. Fat or flabby, aching body, bad posture, stressed out. I fell into the trap too, had to loose 50 pounds recently. Cleaned up diet, working on posture, flexibility, strength, proper muscle activation, knowing ones body. And that is hard to do, maybe only possible because a WFH job lends towards healthy living. Most are not so fortunate. Also having no family or responsibility beside myself really helps. But neglecting such things are not sustainable for society.
We need a society where being healthy is easier, and better rewarded.
I am sorry if this rant is not acceptable to Hacker News, but I wish as a society our focus was "what makes us healthy". Literally that should be a primary principle in guiding our politics. Compared to the rest of history, we are living in a special time, at least in developed countries. We have the means to be creating healthy, beautiful, smart, well rounded, well adjusted individuals. But I feel the opposite is happening, and it seems like the majority of people don't care
Like, do you really think your tongue position is affecting your facial and jaw structure? I'm guessing you believe in "mewing", and every before/after image I have seen has just been a joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_North_...
Is that to be expected with frequent famines?
Another way to put that is it's been 75 years since Korea split, and half that time North Korea has been much worse than south Korea.
Let's not even get into what that chart would look like if humanitarian aid wasn't shipped during those famines.
The '5kg in 50 days' Diet! (2017)
I hate tagging done in places where people obviously care about the building the walls are part of, but in this case it's hard not to see this as a public service:
“Look at this hubris. Hard to ignore now isn't it? A huge newly built tower abandoned for all intents and purposes. It's a waste of space, money, and it raises questions about sustainability and fairness.”
Waste of money: Whose money? The developers? Sure. But it isn't like random tax paying citizens of LA had any kind of stake in it.
You normally see stuff like this in developing countries... not in the middle of one of the largest cities in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
It is 'just' a criminology theory, with many people who disagree with it.
