We are not living longer today - longevity facts

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

Excerpts from: Are We Really Living Longer?, Caustic Commentary, WAPF (Weston A.

Price Foundation), Spring 2007.

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig20.php

An astute member has sent us some interesting statistics about centenarians

[people who are 100 years of age or older].

From a video segment recently aired on Nova [2007 population 306 million], we

learn that only one in 10,000 Americans will live to age 100 [0.33% of the total

population].

US census data indicates that in 1990, there were an estimated 37,306

centenarians out of 248,709,873 . . . [or 1.5% of the total population].

According to numbers compiled at the University of Virginia, in 1830 there were

2,600 centenarians out of 12,866,020 people, or . . .[or 2.02% of the total

population].

Summary by Year:

2007: 0.33% of total population were 100 years of age or more

1990: 1.50% of total population were 100 years of age or more

1830: 2.02% of total population were 100 years of age or more

So much for assurances that this generation will live longer than ever.

The best in health, Bee

[Guest guest]

What would really convince me of the apparent truth of this statement would be

to see how much more of the population is living to " older " ages - not 100.

My understanding is that it used to be people lived to a " normal " age of late

40's, 50's and 60's. Now if someone dies at 60 then we seem to say " but he/she

was so young! "

So, maybe less people are living to 100, but more people are living into their

80's and 90's.

At least, it seems that way to me. I haven't done any research on it.

Really would be curious.

> So much for assurances that this generation will live longer than ever.

>

> The best in health, Bee

>

[Guest guest]

If people are living longer these days - its probably down to all the

preservatives they have consumed all their lives! :oD

People have died young all throughout history - there is much documented

evidence of that, but throughout history there have also been many who lived

well into their eighties or nineties.

was in his nineties when he died, Jefferson 83, Madison

85, Quincy 84, 88. These men were all alive well over

two hundred years ago.

Some in the privileged classes sometimes succumbed to disease, particularly

women in childbirth, but there was no Medical System in place like there is now,

but even with that women still die in childbirth today. Not even the privileged

classes necessarily had a good diet - their wealth meant that they could indulge

in preferred foods, and those foods were not necessarily the most nutritious!

There were a lot of poor people, and poor people tend to succumb to disease,

simply because their diets are so deficient.

Even now, there are communities in the World that are not very long-lived, but

they have a very hard life, having to scratch around for their living, often in

very hard circumstances. Poorly-fed refugees often have a very limited

life-span and succumb to much disease and illness.

Sir McCarrison demonstrated this ably in his studies of the Indian

(Asian) cultures, that those who ate a very nutritious balanced diet were fit

and strong with good teeth and bones, and who generally did not succumb to

disease very easily. Those on a poor diet were often stunted and were sickly in

comparison.

http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/McC/McCToC.html#contents

We in the 'West' are propped up by the Billion-dollar Health Industry, but as we

well know, there are many who still live a miserable life in spite of that,

because the Health Industry is not the Holy Grail. But there are also millions

around the World today who do not have the benefit of that and who continue to

die at a very young age.

Because they are not in our 'back yard' do they not count?

Whichever way you look at it, it all comes back to diet. Whether now, or three

hundred years ago, those who eat a very nutritious diet are healthy and strong,

and those who eat a poor diet are not.

We in the West have a paradox. We are in the unique position of being overfed,

yet undernourished. As Taubes points out, obesity often goes hand-in-hand

with malnutrition. The food is of a type that encouraged weight gain, but not of

a type that feeds the body with what it really needs - vitamins, minerals and

trace elements.

Ali.

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> What would really convince me of the apparent truth of this statement would be

to see how much more of the population is living to " older " ages - not 100.

>

> My understanding is that it used to be people lived to a " normal " age of late

40's, 50's and 60's. Now if someone dies at 60 then we seem to say " but he/she

was so young! "

>

> So, maybe less people are living to 100, but more people are living into their

80's and 90's.

>

> At least, it seems that way to me. I haven't done any research on it.

>

> Really would be curious.

>

>

> > So much for assurances that this generation will live longer than ever.

> >

> > The best in health, Bee

> >

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