Disease and Healthy Food

Paul Schmitmeyer (ps@erinet.com)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:31:22 -0400

Hi all,
Something has been nagging at me for quite sometime. When people say
"There are more and more diseases all the time", is it because:
a) we couldn't identify them before
b) we truely are a sicker nation due to sicker foods.
c) we are living longer so as we get older we are more prone to other
disease
d) previosly people were thought to die from "old age"(somewhat like answer
in a.)
e) we have more diseases because people would have died from some of the
other more common diseases first.
f) all the above.

The reason I bring this up is in an earlier post, there was a question
about the nutritional values in food, organic vs conventional.
Is there any way of looking up statistics and comparing health since the
introduction of the chemical world?
I am lead to believe from earlier post and other inputs from othere
people that one answer "f" is the best but that answer "b" is a huge
contributor.

Comments please?

Thanks,
Paul

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