The greatest risks to your health throughout history were (contagious) diseases and infections. With the advent of sanitation, food safety, modern medicine, etc

The greatest risks to your health throughout history were (contagious) diseases and infections. With the advent of sanitation, food safety, modern medicine, etc., their percentage has dropped significantly. But "you gotta die of something", so when one cause drops in rate, another rises. So if you're stubborn (lucky) enough not to die of anything else, it'll probably be either cancer or heart-related that gets you: up from 12% of all deaths in 1900 to 47% in 2010.[1] In short, we're more likely to die of affluence diseases[2] if we're not dying of poverty diseases.[3] [1] https://demography.cpc.unc.edu/2014/06/16/mortality-and-cause-of-death-1900-v-2010/ https://demography.cpc.unc.edu/2014/06/16/mortality-and-caus... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_affluence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_affluence [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_poverty