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Originally Posted by wehateporn
Life expectancy has improved due to improved nutrition and sanitation, vaccines damage infant mortality, the more vaccines the worse the infant mortality.
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The single largest factor in the increase in life expectancy has been medical advances. Things that once killed people are now easily treatable. The combination of medicine and medical techniques have aided greatly in our life expectancy.
You could make the argument that we eat worse now than we did 150 years ago. At least then everything wasn't packed full of refined sugar and chemicals. Nutrition plays a role, but this country is not healthy nutritionwise.
According to
this piece the infant mortality rate from 1700-1750 in London was around 35%. 350 of every 1,000 babies died before the age of 2. As a comparison today in the UK the infant mortality rate is 4-5 per 1,000 babies.