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"Gains in life expectancy made since the nineteenth century have slowed considerably in recent years, largely as a result of the surge in obesity. Obesity has increased by 50% over the last couple of decades, and now two thirds of Americans are obese or overweight. It has been predicted that this increase in obesity will lead to a blunting or decline in life expectancy in the twenty-first century. It should be clear by now that there are simply too many medications being needlessly taken in the U.S. and that it is costing us too much money for too little benefit." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"But through the centuries average life expectancy has increased. At the turn of the century, life expectancy was about fifty years. Now in the United States it is between seventy and seventy-five years. Japan has the longest life expectancy on the planet, about eighty years. Now let's suppose that the twenty-five-year increase in life expectancy in the U.S. during this century can be attributed to advances in medical technology, public health, immunizations, and reduced infant mortality. Then why do so many Americans fail to reach their life expectancy of seventy years?" - J. Robert Hatherill, Eat To Beat Cancer: A Research Scientist Explains How You and Your Family Can Avoid Up to 90% of All Cancers (Get the book.)

"But during the decades before World War II, when the industrialization of so many *It may be that the explosion of chronic diseases during the twentieth century is now taking a toll on American life expectancy. In 2007, the CIA World Factbook ranked the United States forty-fifth for life expectancy at birth, below countries like Israel, Jordan, Bosnia, and Bermuda." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "But while it is true that our life expectancy has improved dramatically since 1900 (rising in the United States from forty-nine to seventy-seven years), most of that gain is attributed to the fact that more of us are surviving infancy and childhood; the life expectancy of a sixty-five-year-old in 1900 was only about six years less than that of a sixty-five-year-old living today* When you adjust for age, rates of chronic diseases like cancer and type 2 diabetes are considerably higher today than they were in 1900." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"But exciting things are happening. life expectancy is increasing. The median life expectancy has now risen to 77.6 years, compared with 58 years in 1930. Medical advances such as antibiotics, vaccinations, clot-dissolving medications, and "unnatural" techniques such as coronary bypass grafting have pushed back the grim reaper every year since 1950. That is both good news and bad news. If you look at the quality of life of most eighty-year-olds and beyond, it is not great." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"By every conceivable measure, the health of Americans lags behind the health of citizens in other developed countries, starting with life expectancy. In 2001, U.S. life expectancy at birth was seventy-seven years, which put us a few months ahead of Cyprus, Costa Rica, and Chile but years behind Canada, Japan, and Western Europe. We rank twenty-eighth in the world on infant mortality rates, behind Cuba, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom, countries that ought to be beating us at soccer, not health." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Currently, due to better hygiene (see Glossary), fewer babies die, which adds many years when calculating average life expectancy. Go visit a cemetery from the 1800s and early 1900s. You will marvel at all the gravestones for babies! So a big part of why the statistics tell us that we can expect to live longer is simply that fewer infants die nowadays. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the USA ranks 21st in life expectancy among all industrialized nations." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Although he met none of the criteria for inclusion in the trial (patients had to have at least a three-month life expectancy), he was so persistent that his doctor finally relented; yes, he could have an injection. It was duly administered on a Friday, and this is how his doctor described the scene that greeted him on Monday morning. I had left him febrile, gasping for air, completely bedridden. Now, here he was, walking around the ward, chatting happily with the 31 nurses, and spreading his message of good cheer to any who would listen." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "The results of David Spiegel's study of the effects of group therapy on life expectancy. Women who participated on a regular basis in weekly "supportive-expressive" group therapy sessions lived on average twice as long as controls. From The Lancet 1 (1989): 888-91. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier the "false hopes" peddled by what he called the "wish-away-your-cancer crowd."60 And this was when he got an unexpected surprise." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Hardin Jones, had this to say about the current cancer dilemma: "It is most likely that, in terms of life expectancy, the chance of survival is no better with than without treatment, and there is the possibility that treatment may make the survival time of cancer less." After analyzing cancer survival statistics for several decades, Dr Jones, a professor at the University of California, concluded that "...patients are as well, or better off untreated." Jones' disturbing assessment has never been refuted. Dr." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The members of the vegetarian group had an astonishingly low rate of cancer of all types, their life expectancy was notably longer, and they suffered significantly less from cardiovascular disease than those in the control group. Overall, life expectancy ranking of the United States compared with the rest of the world dropped from position 19 in 1999 to position 42 in 2007. The stark increase of obesity and related vascular diseases can be blamed for this trend. And both these chronic conditions are largely caused by the consumption of animal protein." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Survival curves, 1840-1980, reveal that our life expectancy has greatly increased but our life span has remain unchanged. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) TOO 50 75 85 100 Years of Age Figure 21. If we are to shift the survival curve significantly to the right, for a rectangular survival curve, we need to overcome chronic diseases. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) those free of erectile dysfunction." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"By 1970, a seventy-year-old could expect an additional twelve years, an increased life expectancy of only 2.7 years. This is not an insignificant improvement, but it hardly represents a sea change in mortality, especially given the heroic medical efforts often associated with mortality at this age.23 Interested readers should consult appendix C for an explication of these unexpected findings. The third giant was Ivan Illich, a prolific writer, who in 1976 published the book Medical Nemesis.24 Fran and I had met him years ago when he spoke at our respective universities." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Americans' healthy life expectancy ranks 22 out of 23 industrialized countries, better only than the Czech Republic. The World Health Organization also developed several broader measures of health system performance, providing more in-depth comparisons between countries. On "overall achievement,"* the health care system in the United States ranks 15 in the world. "Overall performance" measures the efficiency of a health system by taking into account the per-person health expenditures required to reach its level of achievement. On this measure the U.S. health care system ranking falls to 37." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Nine independent studies have shown that women with a history of breast cancer who use hormones have a better quality of life, no increase in recurrence of breast cancer, and no reduction in their life expectancy. One of the largest of these studies, performed in Australia, followed more than a thousand women from 1969 to 1999. This study reported that women who regularly used hormones had a reduced risk of death from breast cancer and a reduced risk of recurrence." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"For other women, there is no gain in life expectancy; in fact, there may be a decline, given that among women with hysterectomies, there are higher rates of cardiovascular disease. There are no universally accepted set of criteria regarding appropriate indications for a hysterectomy. Most are done for fibroid tumors that present no immediate problems, inflamation or bleeding, or are associated with abortion or sterilization. One study found that in half of all hysterectomies reviewed, accuracy of the preoperative diagnosis could not be evaluated." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Now in his mid-eighties—well past the sixty-seven-year life expectancy for male Murphys—Jerry Murphy thinks my nutrition program represents a more natural way of eating, a return to healthier ways of the past. "It made sense to me," he says, citing his Irish ancestors, who may have killed the fatted calf once a year, but who subsisted primarily on a low-fat, plant-based diet. Each of us has friends, family, and acquaintances who are the victims of coronary disease. These people are often vigorous, in the prime of life, when they are struck down by a heart attack." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"The median life expectancy has now risen to 77.6 years, compared with 58 years in 1930. Medical advances such as antibiotics, vaccinations, clot-dissolving medications, and "unnatural" techniques such as coronary bypass grafting have pushed back the grim reaper every year since 1950. That is both good news and bad news. If you look at the quality of life of most eighty-year-olds and beyond, it is not great." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"By looking at the leading causes of death during the twentieth century, we can see just how limited the role of advances in medical care has been in extending life expectancy. In 1900, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the United States. Over the next 50 years, the death rate from TB fell by 87 percent." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"About 13,000 American children are now annually diagnosed with the disease, which results in a decreased life expectancy of fifteen years. The most alarming recent evidence concerning Type 1 diabetes is its apparent link to childhood vaccinations. In one study, conducted in New Zealand, researchers documented a 60 percent increase in Type 1 diabetes in children that began in 1998, when the country began vaccinating children for hepatitis B. A similar study in Finland showed a 64 percent increase in Type 1 diabetes that began when the HIB vaccination was introduced." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Until the early nineteenth century, with the exception of a few landowners and noblemen, everybody around the world was dirt poor. life expectancy hovered around forty years. People consumed fruits in beverage form. In the United States, the majority of fruits were used for cider, perry or mobby (peach brandy). Because drinking water was viewed as unsafe, fruit booze was what everyone drank. Sir John Fontescue has pointed out that the English were always drunk; they drank no water, except for religious purposes. As U." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "They have shortened life expectancy They live in cars, caves and squalid camps full of cardboard tents and plastic sheets. Fruit picking today is "in league with being a rat catcher in Victorian London," says one economist. Yet without these laborers, the world wouldn't eat. However defective the process, at least southern nations are starting to control exports of their produce to developed nations. Sales of exotics have skyrocketed since the 1990s. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, mango consumption tripled from 1990 to 2000." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Despite our aging population and greater life expectancy, the age of menopause has not changed in the last few centuries. Three important factors influence the age of menopause: current smoking, familial factors, and genetic factors involving the estrogen receptors." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "This rapid expansion in the menopausal population is related both to an increase in longevity (to an average life expectancy of approximately 84 years) and to the maturation of the baby boomer generation into the menopausal age group. Understanding the terminology and definitions can be helpful in understanding the natural biological process of aging. The term menopause is derived from me no (month, menses) plus pausis (pause, cessation); in other words, it is a pause in menstruation." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"At the turn of the century, life expectancy was about fifty years. Now in the United States it is between seventy and seventy-five years. Japan has the longest life expectancy on the planet, about eighty years. Now let's suppose that the twenty-five-year increase in life expectancy in the U.S. during this century can be attributed to advances in medical technology, public health, immunizations, and reduced infant mortality. Then why do so many Americans fail to reach their life expectancy of seventy years? Heart disease and cancer are the two diseases that keep us from living to our potential." - J. Robert Hatherill, Eat To Beat Cancer: A Research Scientist Explains How You and Your Family Can Avoid Up to 90% of All Cancers (Get the book.)

"Future gains in life expectancy depend largely on how much we can extend life among the elderly—exceedingly difficult, when you consider that the incidence of diabetes in people over seventy-five is projected to increase 336 percent during the first half of this century. aspects of our lives was still fairly fresh, the price of "progress," especially to our health, seemed more obvious to many people and therefore more open to question. One of the most intrepid questioners of the prewar period was Weston A." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Today, life expectancy is over seventy-six, and when older folks die, the reason is more likely to be chronic disease than acute illness. But those who outlive these odds face other daunting statistics: The average seventy-five-year-old suffers from three chronic medical conditions and takes five prescription medicines, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Among those over sixty-five, most suffer from hypertension; more than two-thirds are overweight; and nearly 20 percent have diabetes (which triples the chance of developing heart disease)." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Doubtless it would be delighted with a longer life expectancy, and might not, at first, see any need to curb its biological productivity. Slowly, imperceptibly at first, its population would begin to grow. So also would its technological abilities. As with any other evolutionary process, each new advance would facilitate further advances. Its rate of development would accelerate, and if it were not careful it could find itself changing its world faster than its planetary biosystem could adjust. Whether such a species would fall into the trap of self-centeredness is an open question." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"HEALTHY life expectancy AND PER PERSON MEDICAL EXPENDITURES FOR 23 OECD COUNTRIES J^pan Sweden Switzerland • ? United States Czech Republic • $1000 $2000 $3000 $4000 Per Person Health Care Expenditures 2001 $5000 $6000 out for their good health, and the Czech Republic stands out for its low cost and poor health. The United States, however, is almost off the chart with its combination of poor health and high costs (see Fig. 4-1)." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

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