Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
Healthy people live with their world.
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.
The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.
We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.
The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.
We are living longer, and we need to live better.