Many diseases are due to modern behaviors
Many of the health problems we attribute to ageing are due to modern behaviours and lifestyles. They are a mismatch between how we were designed to live and how we really do.
- Type 2 diabetes was almost unheard of in the hunter-gatherers, yet it is the fastest growing disease in the modern world.
- Before WW2, heart attacks were not a big issue. Medical science hardly felt the need to study them.
- An Italian study showed that between 1760 and 1839, less than one percent died from cancer.
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