This is wrong. The estimated life expectancy at birth in years for 1907 was 47.6 for all races and both genders according to the National Vital Statistics Report. It is now 77, thanks to advances in medicine. They are PROLONGING our life.
What makes life expectancy go up? The popular media often imply that increases in life expectancy are due to the wonders of modern medicine. This is false. Increases in life expectancy are due almost entirely to a decrease in the infant mortality rate. Infant Mortality Rates Infant mortality rates are statistics based on the number of infants born alive who do not survive. High infant mortality rates mean that many children are dying at an extremely young age. As more and more infants survive birth and early childhood, the infant mortality rates go down. And as these children grow into adulthood, their "additional" years of life make the average age at death go up. Infant mortality in the U.S. has decreased from more than 100 per 1,000 in 1920 to 10.9 today. During this same time, life expectancy has been said to have increased from 54 to 74 years. At first glance it looks like people are living 20 years longer now than in the past. But this figure is misleading because it is just an average. It could mistakenly lead you to think that in 1920 most people lived to approximately 54 years of age and that now they live to approximately 74. This is not the case. Consider these facts. In 1920 an adult 60 years old could expect to live an average of 16 more years, to about 76. Today an adult 60 years old can expect to live 20 more years, to about 80. That is only a four-year difference that appears in the life expectancy figures. Adults are not living 20 years longer now than they did in 1920. In fact, adults today live little longer than they did in 1920, which is before the development of the powerful modern medications that are often credited with life extension. What has dramatically improved is our chance of surviving to 60. Lies and Statistics Mark Twain proclaimed that, "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." Surely he is not alone in the conclusion that statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics. The statistics commonly used to describe "advances" in the area of life expectancy are misleading, at best. The number of Americans who could expect to live to age 60 in 1830 was only one-third. By 1900 it was one-half. By 1940 it increased to two-thirds. And today, the number who survives to age 60 is over 80%. People are still dying prematurely, compared to what is believed to be our genetically determined maximum life span. But what we are dying from has changed greatly.
This post is funny because you are doing exactly what you're criticizing. You've misunderstood the statistics and thus accused them of lying. Sure the maximum human life span hasn't changed much. I don't think many people are saying that it has. The stats are simply indicating that you have a higher life expectancy. This is in no way implying that max lifespan has increased. They are simply saying that the average]/b] person dies at an older age. This is almost certainly not a result of a miracle drug of some sort. It is the result of being able to prevent/postpone death in situations where death was previously thought to be quick and certain. Consider how many diseases resulted in high death probability 100 years ago, that rarely result in death now. This results in increased life expectancy. Does it mean that humans have the ability to live longer, absolutely not. It just means the probabilty that you will live to an age closer to the human maximum age is higher. I could die tomorrow, or not until age 110. Does this change my life expectancy? No! My life expectancy is still 74. The age at which the majority of people die.
Behind the division of humanity stand those Enlightened Ones whose right and privilege it is to watch over human evolution and to guide the destinies of menâ¦This they do through the implanting of ideas in the minds of the world thinkers ,so that these ideas in due time receive recognition and eventually become controlling factors in human life. They train the members of the New Group of World services in the task of changing these ideas into ideals. These in turn become the desired objectives of the thinkers and are then taught to the powerful middle class and worked up into world forms of governments or religion, thus forming the basis of the New World Order. Man has no rights to develop his own mind.
i thought i would read some posts here again. thanks rearden and elcubano for agreeing with me .on sunday my mother dug out of here files about 25 pages of a lecture given by the late dr.royal lee. i wont tell you the year yet, but i will type some of his lecture. most of us are not aware of the progressive changes that have taken place in the last 150 yrs. in the nutritional pattern of the american people. 150 yrs. ago in our industrial centers, about 350 people died a yr. of tuberculosis. at the present time the figure is about 15 per yr. i dont believe it is the efforts of the medical research fraternity that has made this change. most authorities admit that T.B. is a disease of mal-nutrition. we've been getting more fresh fruits and vegetables. we've been reducing , progressively, all of the infectious diseases. diphtheria in children, 50 yrs. ago, took a lot of lives. you may be surprised to know that in germany they call diphtheria a fulminate scurvy. in germany they discovered that the diphtheria toxin cannot exist in the presence of ascorbic acid. so before a child can develope scurvy, he must be completely deficient of vit.c. today with our deep freezes and our transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables, we do not have very much of that type of depletion, so the disease of diphtheria has practically disappeared. on the other hand , our degenerative diseases have tremendously increased. DIABETES, very prevalent today. the top cause of death is heart disease, a degenerative disease, cancer, arthritis, muscular dystrophy and all of the degenerative diseases are increasing. some would believe that this is because we are LIVING TO AN OLDER AGE. but i don't believe we live as long as we did 100 yrs. ago. STATISTICALLY, IT'S SOMETHING ELSE. in those days T.B. and pneumonia, alone, took off a lot of old people and people in their middle age. we can't consider those when we realise that malnutrition has been corrected to get rid of a lot of that. "back in the old days it was not uncommon for a person to live to be ninety yrs. old. it was almost a usual thing, except for the casualty of an infectious disease. today, people die of DEGENERATIVE DISEASES, long before they reach that age. now, these degenerative diseases,which include CANCER, seem to be in the main, due to the lack of vitamins we are losing in our refined foods. they are the vitamins of the seeds of the plants, the vitamins of the cereal grains, which are lost in our food processing. so , we've been benefitting in one direction , from better foods, we've been losing out in another direction. there's still another factor which is important, it is the development and introduction into commerce in the synthetic foods. one of them is glucose or dextrose or corn syrup, thats a synthetic sugar made by cooking corn starch with an acid, which converts the starch into sugar and at the same time destroys all other nutritional factors. so that our synthetic sugar cannot contain anything but the synthetic sugar. now another food thats being sold in tremendous quantities are the hydrogenated fats. (synthetic fats) I'LL STOP HERE. THIS LECTURE WAS GIVEN ON MARCH 3, 1956. this man was ahead of his time. bgp
Sodium causes your body to hold extra water. This make certain conditions, such as heart failure ,edema, stroke, or kidney disease, worse. For example, if you have heart failure, too much sodium makes it harder for your already weakened heart to pump and can lead to sudden heart failure. Fluid may build up in your lungsâmaking it harder for you to breatheâand in your feet, ankles, legs, and belly. Limiting sodium in your diet will make you feel better. Why there is sodium in almost every think?