Is our way of life killing us?

Working a full time software related job is really bad for the body.

I don’t understand.

You live longer because something stops killing you because civilization advanced. Now something else kills you, but later. The article isn’t saying anything new is happening, it’s just happening in a new place.

This is normal, you should consider it a good thing. I’d much rather die at age 80 from cancer than die at age 50 because of pneumonia, or even worse die at age 30 because there’s too many other things living in my intestines. Changes in our civilization are net positives, people suffering from new working conditions that society hasn’t properly adapted to yet not withstanding.

We were never meant to be sedentary or have such incredible surpluses of food at our disposal. It also doesn’t help with corn subsidies make it so we have HFCS stuff that doesn’t need it like hamburger meat, bread, and Raisin Bran. Why the fuck do we need HFCS in Raisin Bran, it comes with raisins doused in sugar!

yes your way of life is killing me.

^Ze irony.

Finally, someone said it. I can’t believe the title of this thread is suggesting our 1st world lifestyle is “killing us” when we live more than twice as long as we use to and MUCH longer than those in 3rd world countries. The WORST part is people are actually buying into it, the media fear machine wins again.

I would definitely have to agree that our way of life for the most part is having a negative affect on us in the long run. When your life becomes like that of a machine and you are going against thousands of years of evolution in such a short time span; you better believe it’s not healthy. On top of that, factor in all the synthetic chemicals we intake on a daily basis.I think it’s safe to say that you have a recipe for a good life ahead…

Granted that medical science has come a long way, I think it’s fair to say that a lot of the medical solutions we have today are the result of variables that we compounded on ourselves(In other words, diabetes, heart disease, and etc… have always been around, but nowhere near the rates we are seeing today in “advanced” societies). There is a lot of money to be made in alleviating these conditions, so naturally advanced will result where a good amount of money is involved.

Hell, with some studies predicting that Baby Boomers will outlive their kids now, I think now would be a good time to rethink our priorities on an individual basis…

You’re missing the main point of the article. We are living longer because we have access to advanced medical treatment/technology that for sure. However, a lot of our medical problems are self induced through an unnatural lifestyle and diet.

So the biggest problems with our society is being too comfortable and eating too much? I’ll take that any day over most women dying in childbirth or dying of the flu at age 30.

Modern lifestyle is bad for us. Stuff like medicine, science, knowledge. I don’t need no hospitals! God will cure my baby’s fever!

Spoiler

Oh shit baby’s dead :frowning:

“The 20th century saw a dramatic decrease in pregnancy-related deaths, largely because of improvements in sterile techniques — reaching the lowest point in 1987 at 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births. The most recent figures available show the rate hovers around 15 deaths per 100,000 births — placing the U.S. near the bottom among developed nations. The rate of severe complications during and after delivery have also doubled in the last decade, according to a 2012 federal study. Near-misses, where a woman nearly dies, increased by 27 percent. That means each year in the U.S., about 700 women die of pregnancy-related complications and 52,000 experience emergencies such as acute renal failure, shock, respiratory distress, aneurysms and heart surgery. An additional 34,000 barely avoid death.”

As for the flu, I was too lazy to search for world wide rates but I pull up this CBS news story from Feburary: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57568464/worst-of-flu-season-may-be-over-as-death-rates-continue-to-fall/

“Fourteen more pediatric deaths were reported in the latest update, bringing the child death toll for this flu season to 59 . In the last 10 flu seasons, between 43 and 153 U.S. children have died from flu. The CDC does not release information about adult flu deaths, but an estimated 24,000 people die each year. Flu-related hospitalizations continued to climb, with 29.8 per every 100,000 Americans being admitted for flu, up from 25.9 out of 100,000 people from the previous report. The elderly continue to be the age group getting hit hardest, accounting for more than 50 percent of reported hospitalizations.”

Anywho, don’t get it twisted. The point of this thread isn’t that science is bad. It’s that people need to eat salads and take walks.

The candle that shines twice as bright burns half as long.

You just made my point for me, last I checked, 15 deaths out of 100,000 births is less than OVER HALF. As far as the flu, well over half of hospitalizations and deaths are in people over 65 years old, an age people almost never saw not that long ago.

The basis of comparison in the article is not us vs. the developing nations of this world. The basis of comparison is us vs. what we would be if not for the factors under discussion. Of course, I can see why people who don’t feel like being criticized would want to change the focus of the conversation, given that the argument is basically unassailable as-is.

Now can we all stop pretending to be dumb? We have more than enough people on this forum who are dumb for real.

I fail to see the point of the article. It says as life expectancy goes up, so do cases of cancer, which is obvious. We were only suppose to live into our 40s at most so living past that point is going to cause complications. Instead of dying of the common cold or childbirth at age 20, we die of cancer (usually) MUCH later in life. Fact is, despite eating way too much and being lazy as hell, we as a species have never been more healthy.

Now are we doing things that can increase cancer beyond just living longer? Of course, no one will disagree that being lazy, eating too much, drinking heavily and smoking are all bad for your health and greatly increase cancer risk, but what’s the solution? Of course the article provides no solution, neither has anyone in this thread. So is this just another “lol merica is fat lol” thread or is something of substance actually going to be discussed?

I think “Being healthy” and “Not dieing of the flu at 30” are two completely different things.

I am WAAAAAY less healthy then I would be had i been born a farm boy back in the old days, but I will be living longer then I probably would have been in the old days to. Doesn’t mean I’m more healthy. It just means medical care and sanitary knowledge is better now then it was then. I’m still a fat, lazy procrastinator.

Except no where in the article does it make a clear connection between rising cancer occurrences and sedentary lifestyles. What it does do is make a correlation, as a nation becomes more modernized it has increased sedentary behavior and increased cancer occurrences. This does NOT mean that the two effect each other in anyway. Now I am not saying that it isn’t possible, but this a very weak article to make an argument about changing lifestyles because of cancer rates.

Neither here nor there, per the article, as the argument about rising cancer occurrences is the premise for the discussion of other nations adopting the elements of our lifestyle alleged to worsen our cancer risk. Perhaps if what you’re looking for were the central focus of the article rather than the jumping-off point, then there would be a reason to expect a more robust case.

Unfortunately, nobody else has ever looked at the effects that lifestyle choices have on cancer risk, so really, it’s unknowable and not even really worth discussing.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/148440/weightlifting-nutrition-thread-v10-2-february-abs-to-make-the-girls-pay-the-tabs/p1

Sure we are. A bunch of forest/prairie-dwelling apes with short-term hunter-gatherer insticts built to eat meat and veggies. Sitting in offices planning nuclear reactors while eating a predominantly grain-based diet we ourselves poisoned, raising the kids in forests of metal and tarmac and literally carting them around. Sure is going to turn out well.

nailed it. Sorry for the long delay, not having srk on tapatalk is a total turn off from here now. I have to agree that by forcing developing countries to use “inteli-crops” as tony stark would say, a more sedentary life style, and menial jobs, is really killing us. I used to work retail where i had to stand be active for upwards of 14 hours a day with constant interaction with strangers. Now for the past 5 years working in a office with the same faces day in day out has taken its toll on my health, not to mention the crap state my coworkers are in. all the unatural light, refined sugar and carbs, processed meat, synthetic chemicals for appearances, theyre really killing us.