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OP overlooks one critical consideration:

Health math is counterintuitive.

Example (extreme): Suppose you work 12 hours, 6 days per week because that's all you have available.

12 * 6 = 72 hours per week.

Now suppose you decide to add exercise, 1 hour per day, 6 days per week.

You'd intuitively think that would leave you with 6 less hours for work,

72 - 6 = 66.

But the exercise could improve your health (and therefore your effectively while at work, let's say by 10%)

Then you'd have 66 * 1.1 or 72.6 hours of effective work.

So by exercising an hour per day, you get more work done.

I realize the assumptions and the math are oversimplified, but you get the idea.

No reason for a tradeoff when none is needed.



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