Hi Todd and all,

>According to what I read, in the USA the mean life expectancy is
>76 and still creeping up (snipped)  Since the 1970s
>heart disease rates have gone down,

According to whom? Disinformation is rampant in the medical industry, the
food corporations, the pharmaceutical empires, ad nauseum...
I look around and see a lot of death; a lot of friends dead at 40. Most of
my mother's friends have been dead for years and she is in her early 70s.
My dad died at 63; all the rest of my relatives died in their 50s and
60s.   Those who aren't dead are pretty darned sick.

     Does anyone have
>any information about this?

Nutrition and Degeneration by Weston Price is a good place to start.

All the best,
Susan