Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove

> Can we overcome ageing?

75% American are overweight..

Just let it sink a second, they speak about how many baby born after 2000 will reach 100 years old, how we are reaching the absolute limit of human survival.

75% overweight... Everyone know fat people don't live long. I bet all the studies done in the 90's that predicted we would easily be able to reach 100 years old didn't take that into account.

You should be suspicious of definitions where the average is abnormal. If 75% of people are over weight, maybe the definition of overweight is wrong.

These definitions are arbitrary anyway. In india they define a bmi of 25 as obese. The same indian after moving to America is not obese until a bmi of 30.

Meanwhile, the average height is also going up, which also correlates with lower life expectancy.

Cardiologists already had to back off their blood pressure guidelines when they defined the average middle aged man as hypertensive in the past.

Well, the average wasn't abnormal, and now it is, without the definition changing. That's telling us something. We're becoming fatter. That doesn't make being fatter "normal". It makes it average, but that's not the same thing. Historically, we know this is abnormal.