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> it's just something else that we can't detect

What? We’re fat, stressed, eating terribly and not able to afford our doctors enough.

FTFA: “Nearly half of newly diagnosed cancers in the U.S.—42 percent, according to ACS researchers—are avoidable with a combination of prevention measures, such as eating a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy body weight.”

It’s unfortunately more acceptable to let a family member ramble in the corner about glyphosphate than to tell them to get on a treadmill and/or take Ozempic. (Which may be the right answer. Perhaps the damage, physically and educationally, is already done. I don’t know.)

> with each generation following the Baby Boomers seeing higher mortality

Not true among the educated [1]. (An effect that persists even after adjusting for income.)

The entire decline you cite is among people who don’t have a college degree.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/03/17/educated...




Your comment is written to basically say the lower classes are stupid and fat and they get what they deserve.




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