Depends on where you are.  Lots of parts of the world are not very
safe/clean/friendly places and life-expectancy can drop to 31 in
Botswana for instance.
Also I've never seen anyone get cured from let's say cancer, only the
symptoms have been eradicated if you're lucky. Seems to me we don't
really live that much longer in general, just in some areas.
Also the places with higher standards of medicine ususally have more
polluted environments which cause disease etc...
Will eating right (aka Paleo) be an answer? I like to think so and we
can perhaps make an inventory amongst ourselves to compare with non-Paleo.
If ever anyone invents a timemachine Paleolithic times would be my first
choice.

Christy

>
>One thing is very clear: life-expectancy has increased radically in just the
>last few hundred years, thanks mainly to medical science. Paleolithic people
>appear to have been healthier than their Neolithic progeny but I think it
>would be unreasonable to assume they had life-expectancies comparable to
>ours.
>
>-gts
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