Longevity...

[Guest guest]

Hi, Everyone.

I was in a conversation last night with someone comparing the NT way of life

with today's typical SAD lifestyle and its dependence on the

medical/pharmaceutical industry.

The corner she got me into was that today people live longer than they did

generations ago (pre-industrial revolution), and as a result, are healthier

than in the past. I felt I had no ammo against her argument. It's pretty

much true, right?

What I ended up saying was that people today *appear* healthy even though

they take drugs for a variety of ailments, but I felt that still wasn't a

strong argument. It didn't do much to convince her that people aren't

necessarily healthy today even though they may be more motile while

chronically ill. I guess most people think that being able to get out of the

house and into their car to drive someplace makes them healthy and

independent.

My question to you all is, aside from the *Nasty, Brutish and Short*article (

http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/nasty_brutish_short.html) on

the Weston A. Price website, what information do we have to support the

theory that the NT lifestyle would make someone live long. There is plenty

to support that living NT can help us avoid chronic illness, but what's to

say that people in pre-industrial societies lived longer than those today?

Or is the whole point quality over quantity, again.

(The *Nasty, Brutal an Short *article talks mostly about health and not so

much about longevity)

I remember from my college days that in ancient Greece, if someone made it

past their 30s or 40s, they most likely lived into their 60s or 70s, as can

be seen by the likes of Plato, Socrates, Herodotus, Solon and other older

renown ancients.

Polemeropoulos

Acton, MA