Life Expectancy

Don’t believe that we are healthier than ever, just because the older generation is living longer today.  Contrary to what most think, the mean life expectancy now has begun to fall.  Slowly the younger generation is beginning to feel the negative impact of today’s unhealthy food, drink and lifestyle.  Not only are childhood and teenage cancer rates rising, but teenagers now are getting osteoporosis and other degenerative disorders that were unheard of before.

The popularity of sugary, fizzy soft drinks has led the way to the rampant weakening of bone mass in the young.  Older people grew up without the deadly cocktail of denatured food and toxic substances that is undermining their grandchildren’s health.  Today’s younger generation will live about 5 years less than their parents, according to studies published in March 2005 by the New England Journal of Medicine and the National Institute on Aging in the U.S.  It will likely get even worse unless we start doing something about it now.