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Originally posted by Mike F@Feb 19 2005, 09:30 PM
The sheer number of medical advances made even in just the last 300 years make this a no-brainer.
People (for the most part) are much, much healthier and living much longer.
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Wrong.
That's a commonly held myth that people live longer now then they did 300 years ago. Before the industrial revolution and the emergence of city living people lived longer than we do because of that lack of toxicants in their diet, far less stress in their lives and, get this, because they didn't compulsively bathe.
You can go back and check parish records of baptisms and deaths. Some russian peasants used to live until they were over 150.
I remember reading a paper on this a while back I'll try to find a link.