How We Live Governs Our Life Expectancy
M.D.
Our habits of living today, to an amazing degree, govern our sense of well-being, or lack of it, and our life expectancy. The influence of habits of living upon health was not so important back in 1900 when the average life expectancy was just 48 years. At that time three out of four deaths in this country were from infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and typhoid fever which occurred primarily during youth and middle age. As a health problem, the infectious diseases were the prime concern of medical research. The degenerative diseases which occur later in life and are influenced by bad habits of living were accepted as the inevitable accompaniment of advancing years.
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