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When I look at some of my favourite writers, philosophers, and scientists from past eras quite a few of them died in their 60s and 70s. Medicine and nutrition w
by yardie 1y ago
When I look at some of my favourite writers, philosophers, and scientists from past eras quite a few of them died in their 60s and 70s. Medicine and nutrition was poorly understood for that time. What they had in common was wealth and professions that wasn’t backbreaking labor. Child mortality was high and that is what really drags the average age down.
- nradov 1y agoOur marginal increase in understanding of nutrition has had no detectible benefit in terms of population health or lifespan. People in past eras pretty much knew what to eat. Mostly the problem was that poor people simply couldn't afford enough high quality food.
- watwut 1y agoIt was not just child mortality. It was adults dying from diseases and infectiona we don't die of anymore too.
- dreamcompiler 1y agoAnd smoking. Everybody in my parents' generation smoked and most of them died young.
- watwut 1y agoAnd drinking. And drinking while engaged in physical activities with potential for injury.