On 31/03/2010 23:30, George Leppla wrote:
> Sidney Lambe wrote:
>> On alt.food.vegan, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax >
>> wrote:
>>
>> [delete]
>>
>> Another brain-dead vidiot who just believes whatever the TV
>> tells him.
>>
>> I look at the real world and I remember what it was like when I
>> was a kid in the 1950's. Healthy old people all over the place
>> who died comfortably in their sleep after playing with their
>> great-grandchildren all day long.. The average person capable
>> of doing hard work all day long. Serious diseases so rare that
>> they were the talk of the town when they happenned. People who
>> only went to the doctor once every 5 years and almost no one had
>> health insurance. Almost no "rest homes" (which was what they
>> were called then).
>
> Let's look at some facts.
>
> In 1950, average life expectancy was 65.5 years for men, 71 years for
> women ( http://aging.senate.gov/crs/aging1.pdf page 6)
>
> In 2006, average life expectancy for men was 75.4 years and for women it
> was 80.7 years.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061101570.html
>
>
> I'll do the math for you..... people now are living 10 years longer than
> they did back in the 50's.
>
> The "good old days" weren't always so good.
>
> George L

The downside being that more people live longer and develop diseases
that can be kept in check through medication. Cancer, for example, is
largely a disease of old age.

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Dirk

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