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One answer that we particularly like is, “I want to die young, but as late in life as possible” - Dr. William R. Kellas
Medical science has done a brilliant job of curtailing deaths from infections and traumas, which used to be the leading causes of death. So, now, we can look forward to a slow, degenerative disease death, instead of a faster death from trauma. In fact:
Only 1 out of 20 people get to die relatively quickly from a trauma or infection. The rest of us — 19 out of 20 people will die from nutritional factor (degenerative) disease — most will experience many years of poor quality of life in the process of dying — unless we learn how to avoid degenerative disease altogether.
Degenerative disease is avoidable.
According to former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop, of the 2.4 million deaths that occur in the United States each year, 75% are the result of avoidable nutritional factor diseases. That number is conservative. Here’s a chart of the nutritional factor diseases cited by Dr. Koop (CDC):
The above chart tells what people are dying from right now (young and old mixed together in the statistics), but it doesn’t tell you what you are most likely to die of based on your age. To get that perspective you need to know when you were born and then add up the predicted mortality for each year thereafter. Doing this exercise in math we find the likelihood of cause of death for a thirty-five year old, living in 1900 and another living 2000:
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Likely Cause of Death
by Year of Birth
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Year
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1870
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1970
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Infection
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1 in 2
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< 1 in 100
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Cancer
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1 in 33
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1 in 3
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Heart Disease
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1 in 7
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1 in 2
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Today, for a thirty year old person, the odds are
95 out of 100 that he or she will suffer and die from a degenerative, nutritional factor disease (such as Cancer, Heart disease, Stroke, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s arthritis, etc.).
But, it doesn’t need to be this way. The Standard American Diet, coupled with doctors preventing us from dying, by being so skillful at warding off death... is what causes our era of rampant degenerative disease.
Wise people learn what is at the end of the road before starting down it. Down the end of the road of standard nutrition is heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, etc. Nutritional scientists have discovered a better way. We want everyone to know what that way is.
If you drive the road of Standard Nutrition, you will encounter discomfort, disease, depression and loss of quality of life, plus an early death. |
