Independent Writing Task
It is easier for today's people to keep a good health than for the people in the past to do so. Do you gree or disagree with the statement?
There have been many discussions concerning whether people in the past were able to keep healthier than those in the present. Individuals hold various opinions on this topic, differing significantly. However, I believe that people in the former days had more opportunities to keep their health condition good than those in the modern society. I have several reasons that support my view, two of which I will mainly discuss in the following paragraphs.
First of all, people in the old days consumed foods that were relatively less processed than those in the modern days. In the contemporary ear, most people feed on foods, cuisines, or sweets that once experienced a certain processing before released into the market. The positive side of people eating these processed foods is that they have no chance to ingest toxic materials. However, the negative side of this is that they only consume food resources that contain biased nutrients in themselves. That's because most food processing companies manipulate the composition of nutrients in their products in the way to taste better. The constant consuming of such products brings about significant imbalance to people's nutritional status. On the other hand, people in the past ate relatively raw food materials gained directly from the nature, which ensured them to stay healthy without being insufficient in some nutrients. Some may argue that people in the past had chances to ingest dangerous natural resources such as poisoned mushrooms, berries, or rottened tomatoes. However, contrary to some people who believe in chronological snobbery, people in the old days had enough knowledge to discern what is edible and what is harmful to their life. Thus, their assertion is not probable from the standpoint that former people had no chance to consume such wrong foods deliberately.
Second of all, people in the past day received less stress than those in the present day. Nowadays, the most influential factor that has substantial impact on modern people's health problem is the excessive stress one deals with. Many reasons are discussed for the very origin of such stress, but one of the most evident facts concerning that may be that people became responsible for so much tasks in the contemporary era. People have to concern with from minor affairs of tax processing to quite laborious tasks such as nurturing their family or completing their business work. Some may argue that people in the past were more excessively saturated by stress because they had to take on plenty of and various tasks. They had the responsibility, for instance, for foraging berries, hunting animals, protecting their family from total strangers, or fighting with enemies from alien countries that invaded their homeland. However, although people in the old days also has as much tasks as those in the recent days have, they could perform a lot of physical activities and leisures. This would relieve them from such hard-to-overcome burdens. Most of the modern people, on the other hand, lack such recreational activities, which is one of the most frequently mentioned problems considered to have significant influence on today's people's health status. That's because as technology advances, subsequently the types of jobs of people experience alteration toward those more suitable to changed technologies. Such phenomenon compels people in the modern society to spend most of their time sitting on chairs in front of desks, neither regularly exercising nor working out for maintenance of their healthy condition.
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