I agree but it's largely a reflection of the direction that modern society has pushed people. If you're obligated to be at work from sun up to sun down then you're open to a whole rack of health issues that arise from lack of sunshine, repetitive physical tasks, insufficient sleep, compromised posture from sitting all day, unnaturally high levels of stress, etc. The amount of time available to cook 3 solid meals (or even 2 large meals) has decreased, regardless of the changing desire to do so.
I was curious if this is something that doctors are over-prescribing to fix or if it's such a problem that, absent a significant change in lifestyle, prescription meds are the only way to maintain.
As a loose parallel, take the injuries football players are dealing with post-retirement. Even if doctors cut back the medicating to the bare minimum, those guys would still be wrecks in their 50's because the lifestyle requires them to destroy themselves physically.
Similarly, does our current culture require us to destroy ourselves just to tread water? It's easy enough to say that people should change their lifestyle and eating habits but where does that leave them in society. If you're a paper pushing office dweller - how do you keep your job and change your lifestyle to one that is significantly more healthy (by which I mean more than buying better groceries and eating better)
