Soleron on 22 June 2012
| superchunk said: 2) Our food has gotten tremendously worse. (just look at heart disease, diabetes, and cancer... all directly or indirectly related to our food/drink) |
Not really, it's more like, we live long enough so the effects of bad diet and lifestyle become more apparent, rather than dying earlier of a disease. I don't think city-dwelling, working class people in 1900 ate 5 portions of fruit or vegetables each day either.
The chart is mostly, what fails first?
1900 was mostly the immune system
2010 is either diet/smoking related -> heart or lungs, or if you are healthy then cancer. Cancer is mostly a function of age, the body's ability to stop it happening decreases over time whatever we do.
