What amazes me is that although we all eat too much 'processed and manufactured junk' we're all living longer than ever. Curious isn't it?

Life Expectancy Calculator

Have a go at this, it's fantastic! I'm going to live till I'm 90!!! YIPEEEEE!

thats an interesting one (well is it ???? LOL) If longevity and age is worked out by an average, then death rate amongst infants, kids etc is taken into account, bringing the average of "yesteryear" down significantly. Now, with modern medicines and technology, there is definitely less infantile or young deaths. So therefore that increases the average age, meaning the figures say that on average people are living longer (if that makes sense). But even in the middle ages, many people lived to be in their 80s and could survive healthily - but diseases and illnesses were very much "killers" in those days too.

Also, technology and medicines are able to keep people alive longer nowadays - BUT alive simply means that they still have a pulse and there are many cases where I would question the wisdom of keeping someone alive if in fact they are unable "to live" - I'm thinking specifically of people in my family who, were in homes with dementia, incapable of even knowing their own names or feeding themselves etc...... But they add to the figures of longevity nonetheless


Its a great scenario actually, the food manufacturers make money by filling us with poison and the pharmaceutical industry makes money by producing pills to supposedly counteracting it - and then more pills to counteract the side effects of those pills, and......... on and on!!
Jo xxx

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Not really when you take into account the never ending improvements in medical knowledge and practice as well as the fact that most ppl.now work in much safer envronments than ever before.

Exactly. And many killer diseases today are obesity-related, so they are predicting life expectancy to fall in the US where it has reached epidemic proportions.

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Also, of course, it could be that the 'processed and manufactured junk' ain't actually that bad for you...

Have you seen the movie Supersize Me?

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Moderation! however, it seems that we're losing sight of that one!! As for obesity, well when they start offering gastric bands and bypasses on the NHS to kids and young adults - we have a problem!

Jo xxx

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No - but I've just looked it up in wiki. You'd probably get a pretty bad reaction of eating that much of anything and not taking any exercise - paella maybe?

jojo's last comment's right - moderation.

I've actually got so used to eating fresh food all the time now that anything processed tastes really odd. We had chicken with some sort of Thai curry sauce out a jar the other night (a moment's weakness in Morrisons) and we couldn't finish it.

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