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> > today's children will die sooner than their parents > Citations please? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/2449040/Children-will-die-younger-than-thei

> > today's children will die sooner than their parents > Citations please? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/2449040/Children-will-die-younger-than-their-parents-minister-warns.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/2449040/Children-will... http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr043743#t=article http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr043743#t=article (Yup, as mass produced food becomes the main and only source of calories people can afford then their health will decrease. Yup, it's linked to money you can or can't make. Yup, if I had not landed a job this year I would have stopped using some medicine I need (severe allergy) for an over the counter solution because our health minister decided to drop it from the reimbursed medicine. It's happening. http://www.ibtimes.com/healthcare-2015-why-millennials-avoid-seeing-doctors-what-means-rising-healthcare-2065473 http://www.ibtimes.com/healthcare-2015-why-millennials-avoid... . And the over the counter solution would have ruined the inside of my nose after two weeks than I would then need more expensive care.)

lisper 10y ago
These are not data, these are predictions. For first-world countries. The fact is that world-wide, at the moment, people are living longer, healthier lives than at any previous time in human history.
- johnchristopher 10y ago
  Of course these are predictions. Those children haven't lived their lives yet. But it's nonetheless data-based predictions.
  - lisper 10y ago
    OK, well, we may just have to agree to disagree about this. Personally, I don't think that the fact that kids are drinking too much soda really refutes the thesis that we are currently in a golden age when you look at the situation globally and relative to the full sweep of human history. Yes, there are many things that could be improved (and having people drink less soda is certainly one of them). But things could be -- and have in the past almost universally been -- one hell of a lot worse than they are right now.

lisper 10y ago

These are not data, these are predictions. For first-world countries. The fact is that world-wide, at the moment, people are living longer, healthier lives than at any previous time in human history.

johnchristopher 10y ago
Of course these are predictions. Those children haven't lived their lives yet. But it's nonetheless data-based predictions.
- lisper 10y ago
  OK, well, we may just have to agree to disagree about this. Personally, I don't think that the fact that kids are drinking too much soda really refutes the thesis that we are currently in a golden age when you look at the situation globally and relative to the full sweep of human history. Yes, there are many things that could be improved (and having people drink less soda is certainly one of them). But things could be -- and have in the past almost universally been -- one hell of a lot worse than they are right now.