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Nutrition has seen significant steps backwards in the recent decades. Medicine might also be a net negative since it's mostly treating nutrition related disease
by valval 2y ago
Nutrition has seen significant steps backwards in the recent decades. Medicine might also be a net negative since it's mostly treating nutrition related diseases/deficiencies with drugs that have their own side effects.
Medicine has seen progress in fields like surgery and oncology, as in extending lives of old and sick people, so life expectancies are going up.
- KineticLensman 2y agoLife expectancy of overall populations has also increased because of the massive reductions in child mortality thanks due to medicine and better sanitation.
- piuantiderp 2y agoYes but has life expectancy of the people "who would not have died in child mortality" improved? Seems like a dishonest use of averages