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Originally Posted by charles brough
But do you have the "facts?" Do you know if the diabetes rate per 100,000 people is not increasing, especially among children? In the 1960s a war against cancer was launched. Has the cancer rate declined? Could the heart attack rate be increasing per 100.000 people but many live longer because of a medical system so expensive that many Lower-income working people cannot afford it?
What is a "healthy" person? Is it someone propped up by drugs for multiple conditions so that he or she is able to live longer than past generations?
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Our diseases have changed over time and are different in different societies. (which tells you something about the food we eat)
Heart disease #1 in the West.
The aging population, and better sanitary conditions means we have & die of different diseases.
I heard a middle aged doctor say on TV last night that when he satrted practice he cared for one 90 year old. Now he has three dozen 90 year olds on his books.
IMO Bring in voluntary euthanasia!
BTW- a bit of trivia-
It is said that China has such a lage population today because of the invention of green tea. Not because of the anti-oxidants it contains, but because the Chinese started to boil their water. While Europeans were dying in droves by water born diseases.
