Media Lies with Statistics of Longevity

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<br><br>Misleading Statistics: Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality

Rates<br><br> Life expectancy de-scribes the anticipated average age

at the time of death. When western media reports

that life expectancy has risen, they are stating that

someone born today will live (on the average) longer than

someone born years ago. It does not mean that someone

born 10, 20, or 50 years ago will live longer, and it

does not mean that more and more individuals are

living longer. What makes life expectancy go up? The

media often implies that increased life expectancy is

due to modern medicine. This is false. Increases in

life expec-tancy are due to decreases in infant

mortality.<br><br> Infant mortality rates are statistics based on the

number of infants born, who do not survive. High infant

mortality rates mean that many chil-dren are dying at an

extremely young age. As more and more infants survive birth

and early childhood, the infant mortality rate

decreases. As these children grow into adulthood, their

“additional” years make the av-erage age at death go

up.<br><br> Infant mortality in the U.S. has de-creased from more

than 100 per 10,000 in 1920, to 10.9 today. During

this same time, life expectancy has been said to have

increased from 54 to 74 years. At first glance, it looks as

if people are living 20 years longer now, than in

the past. But this figure is misleading, since it is

just an average. It erroneously leads you to think

that in 1920, most people lived to approxi-mately 54

years of age and that now, people are living to

approximately age 74. This is not the case.<br><br> In 1920 an

adult 60 year old could expect to live an average of 16

more years, to about 76. Today, an adult 60 year old

can ex-pect to live 20 more years, to about 80. That

is only a four year difference, not the 20 year

difference that appears in the life expectancy

figures.<br><br> Adults are not living 20 years longer now, than they did

in 1920. In fact, adults today live only slightly

longer than they did in 1920, which was before the

devel-opment of powerful modern med-ications that are credited

with life extension. What has dramatically improved is

our chance of surviving to age 60.<br><br> Mark Twain

proclaimed that, “There are lies, dam lies, and statistics.”

Statistics don’t lie, but liars use sta-tistics. The

statistics commonly used to describe “advances” in the area

of life expectancy and the “miracles” of modern

medicine are misleading. The number of Americans who could

expect to live to age 60 in 1830 was only one-third. By

1900 it was one-half. By 1940 it increased to two

-thirds. Today, the numbers who survive to age 60 is over

80%. People are still dying prematurely, compared to

what is believed to be our genetic maximum life span,

and what we are dying from has changed

dramatically.<br><br>The bottom line with longevity is NOT quantity, but

rather QUALITY. I care less about how LONG I live

compared to how WELL I am while alive. These days with

people living longer as senior citizens on drugs and in

wheel chairs, look at there condition...Parkinson's,

Alzheimer's, osteoporotic, cancer, WHICH IS ALL AVOIDABLE.

<br><br>I eat all raw 100% and love it, NOT for longevity

as much for QUALITY of life. Nearly all disease is

avoidable.<br><br>Namaste, In Love and Reality<br>Art Baker