It's a myth that the average person is living a longer and healthier life. With one out of every two North Americans dying of heart disease and one out of three succumbing to some form of cancer; plus alarming increases in diabetes, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, obesity, kidney disease, autism etc; it's hard to imagine this generation and those that follow will enjoy a longer and healthier life expectancy.
One of the factors leading to this fallacy is that the infant mortality rate has decreased substantially in the last century, as have the deaths of mothers of newborn who often perished while giving birth. Higher levels of sanitation and safer drinking water have also contributed to raising the survival rate.
A major influence that skews the statistics is the growing sector of society (baby-boomers) reaching their senior years, thereby increasing the average age marker and giving the false impression of increased longevity overall.
The myth of increased longevity is perpetrated by government and the medical industry to dupe the public into believing the Health Care system (read: "Sick Care Management Industry") is responsible for the achievement.
Governments gain from this perceived increase in life expectancy by raising retirement ages for Social Security and Medicare, thereby creating a "solution" for deficits they've created themselves through corruption, incompetentcy, and a war-mongering mentality that sucks trillions of tax dollars from the coffers. Even if there was some truth to people living longer today than in the past; punishing them by forcing them to work longer before they receive their rightful benefits is a vile and underhanded ploy.
According to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, over the past decade, life expectancy in the majority of U.S. counties dropped below the life expectancy of people in the 10 nations who live the longest.
"Despite the fact that the U.S. spends more per capita than any other nation on health, eight out of every 10 counties are not keeping pace in terms of health outcomes. That's a staggering statistic", says Dr. Chris Murray, the institute's director.
On a related note, the July 2000 issue of the Journal of the Medical Association (JAMA) reported that doctors were the third leading cause of death in the US, mainly due to "properly" prescribed drugs, misdiagnoses, and failed and unnessesary surgeries. Since incidents of injury or death related to medical errors are rarely reported, the number of cases linked to medical miscare is likely much higher.
Is U.S. Health Really the Best in the World?
by Barbara Starfleld, M.D., Department of Health Policy Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/hl_200012.pdf
For many years, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, funded by Unilever (the third largest corporation in the world), have heavily promoted an unnatural plastic fat (Becel) as a healthy alternative to natural butter. Contrary to what the industry has been stating about longevity, the Foundation's recent study indicates Canadian baby boomers turning 60 this year could be the first generation to turn back the clock and experience a decline in quality of life. Naturally, these findings would apply to US citizens as well where obesity and rates of disease are even higher.
There have also been other indicators such as the escalating instances of childhood diseases that demonstrate Western society is not nearly as healthy as the medical profession would have us believe.
Bottom line: Figures don't lie but liars can figure.
Thoughts in a Country Churchyard: Longevity In Antiquity by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2011/07/18/kultur-thoughts-in-a-country-churchyard-longevity-in-antiquity/