Life expectancy was worse, for reasons of awful (compared to now) child mortality and also because many other major diseases killed people before they could get

Life expectancy was worse, for reasons of awful (compared to now) child mortality and also because many other major diseases killed people before they could get the cancers of old age that today skew so many cancer statistics towards higher prevalence. Despite this, cancer was no stranger to the 1930s, and treatment options were virtually non-existent if it did arrive. Furthermore, antibiotics simply didn't exist, so goodbye life or in the better case, limb, if even minor infections became bad. It was largely a firm understanding of germ theory that prevented more infection deaths at the time. Beyond that, Life expectancy in general ranged from just over 57 years in 1929 to only 63 years by the mid 1930s. Despite your flippant claim about "processed shit" being at fault for our supposedly awful modern life, you'd generally be much better off and much healthier today, even if your diet isn't entirely perfect. Also worth mentioning: the most common causes of death during the depression were: "cardiovascular and renal diseases, cancer, influenza and pneumonia, tuberculosis, motor vehicle traffic injuries, and suicide". These were major problems then and even now some of them remain major problems just like then despite fewer processed popular diet options at that time. https://ur.umich.edu/0910/Oct05_09/19.php#:~:text=The%20researchers%20analyzed%20age%2Dspecific,vehicle%20traffic%20injuries%2C%20and%20suicide https://ur.umich.edu/0910/Oct05_09/19.php#:~:text=The%20rese....