Michael Wolraich: Most of us are in that boat. What's wrong with it? Well, we all are. So if you think about how humans evolved, we evolved in these uncomfortable, challenging, trying environments. We still have these drives to be comfortable, but the world is now so comfortable in many ways. But we don't have to move. When we have food, we have really calorie dense food and we still have this drives to eat as much of it as possible.
Journalist and author Michael Easter talks about his book The Comfort Crisis with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Easter thinks modern life is too easy, too comfortable. To be healthy, he says, we need to move out of our comfort zones and every once in a while try to do something, especially something physically demanding, that we didn't think was possible. Easter discusses rising levels of anxiety and depression in the West and why taking on challenges can be part of the solution.