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Historical Census Data On Survival Rates

Series B 126-135
Expectation of Life at Specified Ages
For Massachusetts
1850 to 1949
(in years)

B 126-136.  Expectation of life at specified ages, by sex. for Massachusetts, 1850 to 1949-51.  Until I get a new scanning program this table has been scanned in as an image and is not yet very distinct.

A better reproduction will be coming along soon.

However, as an example, look at the section of the table on the right, the column for "Age 60," then under that age, look at "Female."  The bottom figure shows the average life expectancy for a female aged 60 in the year 1850 -- it shows 17.0 years while a similar female aged 60, in the year 1950 has only 15.7 years of life expectancy.

Thus, more people lived longer in 1950 than they did in 1850, but if a person got to the age of 60 the chances of living longer at that age were better in 1850 than they were in 1950.

This table covers the State of Massachusetts.  Most other areas weren't keeping such records in 1850, but Massachusetts would seem to be representative of the entire population.

The conclusion related to heart disease?  Well, doctors are fond of telling you that modern medical science has "extended life."  In fact, it has been sterilization of surgical instruments, and the washing of hands by the doctors attending a birth -- these have been the great medical strides forward. These are what has greatly increased the chances of living past the first year for millions of people.

But, despite all the "advances" in medicine and science in the past 100 years, if you survive the first year, and get to the age of 60, you would have been better off in 1850 than you are today.

Further, generally NONE of those older people in 1850 died of heart disease.  They died of several other causes, but not heart disease.  In today's times, the great bulk of older people will die of heart disease.

What does this tell you?

That heart disease didn't exist 150 years ago and that heart disease must, therefore, have its causes within something that has changed over the last 150 years.  That's an easy one.  It is man's diet and life style that has changed so drastically.  That change is covered elsewhere in this web site (click here for the explanation within Chapter Three, and click here for one of many typical reports on "prehistoric diets" compared with modern diets).

Man's diet, 150 years ago, included eggs and butter -- and other foods high in cholesterol.  It would be foolish to claim, as many authors do today, that heart disease has been caused by people eating foods high in cholesterol when our ancestors ate exactly that type of food and lived longer than we do today.  Double foolish when you realize that not only did they live longer on high-cholesterol diets 150 years ago, but when they died they did not die of heart disease.

If the real cause of heart disease is modern food and food processing (which is where the real change can be observed between the diets of 150 years ago and now), then why would a cholesterol-lowering drug be the answer.

The answer lies in the fact that modern food processors had a great deal at stake in this game.  If scientists blamed the highly processed foods (Corn Flakes, Coca Cola etc.) there would be billions of dollars lost.  If scientists blamed eggs and butter, then only the farmer would be harmed and the drug companies would reap fantastic sales and profits at the expense of the sick citizenry.

If you can see the simple logic in this section, why can't the doctors with all their vaunted education and learning?

Because they were deliberately taught, in medical school, that the only scientific way to treat people is with drugs -- not with nutrition.

There are villains enough to go around here, including you yourself for being the sucker you are for eating this junk.

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