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I found that curious. Why were the Amish living so much longer than others in colonial times?
by jpab 6y ago
I found that curious. Why were the Amish living so much longer than others in colonial times?
- SamReidHughes 6y agoLess exposure to disease.
- kyuudou 6y agoThey lead non-sedentary lives involving manual labor, keeping their bodies in good health. They also don't have frankenfood and tend to have actual food instead. I'm surprised people don't understand just how important these 2 factors are towards longevity.
- jessaustin 6y agoThis doesn't answer parent's question. In "colonial times", most people did physical labor and ate real food.
- tengbretson 6y agoTemperance.
- sonthonax 6y agoHumans would frequently live beyond 70 years in preindustrial societies. If you look at ages when colonial aristocrats died in colonial America you'll see a similar trend. What pushed life expectancy down was infant mortality, and communicable disease. Amish would have likely lived for longer than average simply because they didn’t live in cities. There’s also the obvious problem of the methods of old statistics, did it include infant mortality and childbirth deaths?