Back in 2004 there was a big study that found low rates of obesity in a small Amish community http://allaviacad.com/My%20Documents/College/Fitness/bassett_2004.pdf …
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weirdly I remember one of the popular “life among the amish” books talks about them eating tons of sugar cereal
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and often having false teeth prematurely
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I'm a bit confuzzled by this. Am I misunderstanding Amish permissible of buying sugar cereal from a store? I would have expected that to be completely haram.
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this shatters my illusion as the Amish as trying to practice some form of "self-sufficiency" in any meaningful sense.
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I think they’re actually pretty interesting and successful in how they pick and choose
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i never got the impression the Amish were concerned about self-sufficiency, just lifestyle congruence. like it doesn't matter to them if a 2x4 was manufactured with a neural network hyperlathe as long as they don't have to have a neural network hyperlathe to use it
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this is what I mean by illusion shattering. I'm getting that that's what they're really doing, but I can't it into my head why that that is what they're really doing. The previous model (now shattered) had some consistency to it. Don't understand this one.
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