Human Life Span ( olden days vs. current )

[vasu123]

Human Life Span is going down these days and it will go down in future. specially if we take India, Life span is going down in middle aged people. In olden days people were living Long (example our grand parents) but today due to stress and greedy on money and big expectations on life and comparing with others causing this issues. In Olden days people were not so greedy about money and Luxury Life style, they used to work harder(physically) and used to eat natural organic foods. These days people taking lot of stress and making big money in short term but dying so fast at the age of 65 years old or before with different kind of health issues. Many of them getting Heart Attacks and Diabetes and other diseases with stress and tensions. Technically over all average Life span is increasing day by day but that is happening with good medical Treatment to diseases, but not able to prevent the diseases though.

what are your opinions and thoughts on this topic.

[sophisticuss]

In olden days, you could not have open heart surgery/ availability of statins and probably died of heart attack which could have been prevented. - Lack of choice
In modern times, you could alter your life style if you want ( not get stress related diseases) - Many choices possible.

I would be scared to go back to old days.

[RBee]

Human Life Span is going down these days...These days people taking lot of stress and making big money in short term but dying so fast at the age of 65 years old or before with different kind of health issues. Many of them getting Heart Attacks and Diabetes and other diseases with stress and tensions.

You must not be up-to-date on increasing human expectancy.. In 1941, India's life expectancy was 30ish.. Now it is close to 70. US LE is ~ 78..

President of The United States (POTUS) has maximum stress with meetings streching to midnight on everyday basis but look at the age of surviving past presidents
Jimmy Carter 91
George H W Bush 91
Bill Clinton 69
George W Bush 69

India's politicians who are still surviving are:
ABV 91
LK Advani 88
Man Mohan Singh 83
Sonia Gandhi 69


I wish you had used google search before you issued faulty statements that people lived longer in old days...
Even in Mahabharata, Bheeshma was the only one above 100.. Now if you google, you will get plenty of people with 100+ age in Japan/China/US and even India..

[Chakraan]

With modern medical science, the death is delayed now a days and you keep paying to the hospitals and Farma companies.

This is the new problem of the developed world, Too many senior citizen like in JAPAN, Europe, America even in Singapore.

Aging population is bad for a country's economy.

[krlguy]

Life expectancy statistics improved significantly initially in the last century for all countries due to big reduction in childhood death by vaccines and better medical care.. It happened in india also I believe after independence

Max age of human beings who have lived longest in any time of history has remained almost same through. In olden times, combination of luck and good health made it possible.

You must not be up-to-date on increasing human expectancy.. In 1941, India's life expectancy was 30ish.. Now it is close to 70. US LE is ~ 78..

President of The United States (POTUS) has maximum stress with meetings streching to midnight on everyday basis but look at the age of surviving past presidents
Jimmy Carter 91
George H W Bush 91
Bill Clinton 69
George W Bush 69

India's politicians who are still surviving are:
ABV 91
LK Advani 88
Man Mohan Singh 83
Sonia Gandhi 69


I wish you had used google search before you issued faulty statements that people lived longer in old days...
Even in Mahabharata, Bheeshma was the only one above 100.. Now if you google, you will get plenty of people with 100+ age in Japan/China/US and even India..

[DesBhakt]

You must not be up-to-date on increasing human expectancy.. In 1941, India's life expectancy was 30ish.. Now it is close to 70. US LE is ~ 78..

President of The United States (POTUS) has maximum stress with meetings streching to midnight on everyday basis but look at the age of surviving past presidents
Jimmy Carter 91
George H W Bush 91
Bill Clinton 69
George W Bush 69

India's politicians who are still surviving are:
ABV 91
LK Advani 88
Man Mohan Singh 83
Sonia Gandhi 69


I wish you had used google search before you issued faulty statements that people lived longer in old days...
Even in Mahabharata, Bheeshma was the only one above 100.. Now if you google, you will get plenty of people with 100+ age in Japan/China/US and even India..

Were you serious about Bheeshma though? :)

[DesBhakt]

Max age of human beings who have lived longest in any time of history has remained almost same through.

Curious, Do we have evidence of this?

According to Google+wiki Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997)[1] was a French supercentenarian who has the longest confirmed human lifespan on record, living to the age of 122 years, 164 days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

[Chakraan]

Generally, populations begin to age when fertility declines and adult mortality improves. Japan had the highest average life expectancy at birth ? 81 years, followed by Singapore (80) and several other developed countries: Australia, Canada, Italy, Iceland, Sweden and Switzerland (79). Levels for the United States and most other developed countries fall in the 76- to 78-year range.


The world?s population age 65 and older is growing by an unprecedented 800,000 people a month, according to a report issued by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

[punjabi]

In the olden days in india we never heard of people dying of cancer. Now its one of the most common disease in india.

[Lakshya]

In the olden days in india we never heard of people dying of cancer. Now its one of the most common disease in india.

I think they were dying but we were not aware that it was a cancer....