[treya]

I've run across a number of not just anecdotal accounts of long longevity, good health and lack of disease in a number of different indigenous cultures. I get the uncomfortable feeling that we are persistently and myopically comparing ourselves to in terms of health and longevity (and happiness/satisfaction for that matter) to what has been essentially a pathological state of human existence in the newer civilizations of the last couple thousand years. And still in modern times the diseases of civilization are raging as hard as ever.

For a good example, read the description of the Crow Indians in the last appendix of Journal of A Trapper:

https://books.google.com/books?id=49HTAAAAMAAJ&printsec=fron...