disease stats

[Guest guest]

this stat based upon army records from the civil war is particularly

interesting:

 

" Eighty percent had heart disease by the time they were 60, compared

with less than 50 percent today. "

 

There has been a long held belief in the field of natural healthcare

that heart disease is a modern disease largely related to hi fat

diet, sedentary lifestyle, etc. This is based on stats that put heart

disease well down the list on leading causes of death in 1900 and

number 1 today. However, that does not mean people did not have heart

disease. It just means they died of something else. In the pre-

antibiotic era, that something else was typically pneumonia. It

actually appears that despite eating a diet that was more natural

than ours and getting plenty of exercise, heart disease was more

prevalent in the 19th century than it is today. It is only because we

survive pneumonia and TB today that we live to die to heart disease

and cancer later on. Also, as evidence mounts that untreated

bacterial infections may account for as much as 30% of heart disease,

proper use of antibiotics may play a preventive role. Note I do not

advocate injudicious of antibiotics. But if you have a dangerous

bacterial infection, that is when they are indicated. As for cancer,

the fact that more people seem to get cancer to day may just be an

artifact of diagnosis. In pre-modern times, it was impossible to

detect most cancers and very likely that an untreatable infection

would take a person first. Imagine you are in the early stages of

lung cancer and end up getting pneumonia in your weakened state. Your

death certificate would say pneumonia and in most cases no autopsy

would be done to determine the actual cause of death.

 

 

 

 

 

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