The article lost me on page one when the author started stating things like “Back at the turn of the century (1900), Alzheimer’s and heart attacks didn’t exist and cancer only caused 3.4% of deaths”
Well, since the average life expectancy was around 45 back then, no one lived long enough to get Alzheimer’s. It didn’t show up in modern history until life expectancy got high enough to see it.
The current heart attack rates for people under 45 is less than 0.5%, so it’s no surprise it wasn’t documented back then either.
As far as cancer rates, 3.4% in people under age 45 would be ridiculously high in the modern World where the current cancer death rates for people under age 45 is less than 0.3%....and less than 1% get it to begin with.
To further add to it, medical science wasn’t very advanced back then and very few autopsies or other examinations were done on people who died. Most were simply buried. So any statistics about disease prevalence are unreliable.
If the author opens with a BS spin on data out of context, I have zero interest in reading further.
