| If cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc are on the rise, why is our
average life expectancy so high? You know what they say, cancer, diabetes, etc, is on the rise, 1/4 of all people will get cancer, 1/8 of women will get breast cancer, etc. Heart disease is on the rise, chemicals here and there will give you cancer. Food will give you cancer, blah blah blah.
Then why is it our life expectancy has increased to our 80s? Back before we worried about dioxins and chlorine and such, people worried about polio and tuberculosis, and our life expectancy was around our 40s and 50s! |