By Physicians of the Penn State Geisinger Health System
The United States is among the two or three most medically advanced nations in the world. Yet the average life expectancy here isn't even in the top 10 of the developing nations.
According to a 1992 federal report, each American can now expect to live 75.3 years, or about four months more than three years ago. That's good, certainly. But keep in mind that this figure is an average. There are still many who die each year at very young ages as a result of AIDS, diabetes, heart disease and other killers – so many people, in fact, that the U.S. lags behind Australia, France, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, the Netherlands, Italy, Iceland and a number of other nations in overall life expectancy.
[Karl: This is a bit deceptive. The actual picture is much worse than reported. This report brags that the average life expectancy has increased! Well, if you look at census statistics from the 1850's you find that older people THEN lived longer than that same age bracket NOW!
That is not a proud statistic for modern medicine!
And, doesn't it tell you something? Back in the 1850s people ate eggs and butter and terribly violated the AHA diet!
Here is a quote from those statistics, and the source is also available on this web site.
Thus, more people lived longer in 1950 than they did in 1850, but if a person got to the age of 60 the chances of living longer at that age were better in 1850 than they were in 1950.
How can that be so if our health care is so excellent?
There is no single answer to that question, but surely our lifestyle is a factor. Too many of us eat, smoke and drink too much. Too many of us exercise too little. And too many of us allow the stress of the workplace to rule our emotions. Consequently, we are first at something: heart disease. About 45 percent of us die of it. Moreover, we rank very high in cancer and stroke, two other major killers that feed on our lifestyles.
[Karl: Why not include "modern medicine" as the major factor in the terrible life expectancy in America? Let's start putting the truth out there to view!
Here's more bad news:
[Karl: When your medicine doesn't work? Blame the patient!
In accidental deaths the U.S. has a mediocre record at best. Syria, Chile, Singapore, Kuwait, Israel, Uruguay and nine other nations are ahead of us. Our accidental death rate – 39.1 per 100,000 population – is triple that of Hong Kong's.
All of that is not to say we haven't made progress. Let's pat ourselves on the back for reducing the heart-disease death rate by 39 percent between 1970 and 1990 and for reducing the childhood death rate 23 percent between 1977 and 1990, thanks in part to smoke alarms and wider use of infant car seats.
[Karl: Do you see how pervasive this lie is? The claim that the heart-disease death rate has decreased by 39% is just false. I can add modifiers to that, but it is a simple truth. The American Heart Association published false claims that the death rate was going down -- they made those claims so that they could get more research money.
But clearly we could do far more. We need to:
1. Get our diets under control.
2. Maintain healthy weight levels.
3. Exercise regularly – at least three times a week.
4. See our physicians at regularly scheduled intervals.
5. Make sure that our children receive all of their immunizations.
6. Make medical research just as much a priority as national defense.
7. Install more smoke alarms in our homes.
8. Use the seatbelts in our cars.
9. Make our workplaces more environmentally safe and less emotionally threatening.
10. Give up cigarettes and reduce alcohol consumption.
[Karl: 11. We need to get some truth into the world of medical care!
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