World Life Expectancy by Country

Wow = US is down to 39th place. Thank you Monsanto and friends. Thank you also to the wonderful makers of aspartame and the guys who load our water with sodium fluoride - and to the pharmaceutically driven medical industrial complex who puts as many people on as many drugs as they can manage. We love you, too.

Likewise. Which is just as well, as I have to study it.

I assumed that Japan was going to be top-ranked, and found to my great surprise that it was only second. Which made absolutely no sense at all.

But then I looked for the top-ranked one and found it was San Marino(!), which I believe has a total population of about 30,000 and isn't a "country" according to some definitions of the word. (It's also one of the very wealthiest places in the world, which of course accounts for the statistical anomaly!). Still interesting, though, for all that!

Dunno, Joe - Fukishima might just mess with that a little bit - unmitigated radioactivy sometimes does strange things to people. They need to regulate that stuff ( stupid political allusion) or we might see Japan's lifespans plummeting before too much longer, too. Since that accident/disaster - they might also have the real Godzilla to tangle with soon and I'm sure that will bring them down to our level.

Interestingly Australia ranks at #6, despite having more wildlife that can kill you than any other nation.

PS, by wildlife, I'm not referring to to Aussies themselves, but the non-human part of the population.

Wow, that list is crazy. Didn't expect to see some of those numbers, although not everything on the list is a legit country.

In Japan it is the Okinawans who have the longest lifespan. It's not uncommon for them to reach 100 years.

The sad thing is looking at some of the countries with the lowest life expectancy. Places like Afghanistan has an average life span of only 47 years.

On another note, one thing that would be interesting to compare is the countries' health care systems. How does social health care compare to other alternatives when calculating life span?

I smell a marketing opportunity here.

"Read about what kept this guy alive for 111-1/4 years"

I really enjoyed seeing articles in the past where they talked about how France has a lower heart disease rate than USA. They eat butter and they drink wine.

I think the moral of the story was the wine is the magic elixir.

... or Italy's olive oil - covering many sins!

.. and I tried the Goji Berry juice because in the Himalayas or wherever they live to be so old because of Goji - (it does make you feel happy)

... and I tried **** Berry juice because the Amazon Rain forest - well for whatever reason, we all know it is where many good things come from. (I lost weight)!

Right now I have fermented veges in a pill - (Michio Kushi/Japan, founder of modern western macrobiotics) and I take them when I feel guilty because I don't eat enough veges that day. There are so many things in this pill that I won't bore you to death but that's why it is called a Superfood Complex.

So yeah - grab the ones with the maximum longevity, find out what their main staples are and SELL IT ONLINE! lol. Statistical 'proof' -very effective selling point - and makes great 'fodder'.

No name of India in the list wondering where would India be ranked in that life expectancy.....

In my family centenarians are common. Most have Cossack genes, but the English live just slightly less. Dad's 88 now and plays raquetball. Not the game he played 30 years ago, but he plays.

I think where we see downward trends, what you will find is GMO and chemical laden food, as well as environmental poisons. In the US they are stuffing every pharm down people's throats that they can get them to swalow, and that is having a very bad effect on longevity. Poverty is also become more widespread every year. I think until we get our heads screwed back on straight and start demanding pure foods, environmental clean-up and return to solid natural ways of life, we're going to see rates continue to plummet.

Here's an example of some of the little ways we mess up. Being barefoot on natural ground is extremely important for your health. It correctly grounds your body's electromagnetism. So how many people do you know that walk outside barefoot anymore? Little things like that can add up and take a toll. No doubt, genetics plays are part, but environmentally, there is much we can do for ourselves that people often just don't do.

Jeanne Louise Calment is said to have been the oldest person ever. She
was 122 years old when she died.

You can read more about her over here:

Jeanne Calment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is good to note that women, on average, live longer than man. I have my
own personal theory for this but I'm not sure. Modern science doesn't
know why either.

That aside, there are other people who supposedly reached much
older ages than her, but their age can't be verified due to lack
of documents. Example, the Chinese Li Ching-Yuen allegedly lived
up to either 197 years or 256.

Here's the wikipedia article on him:

Li Ching-Yuen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think there is a lot to be said for the fact the women generally take better care of themselves. How many guys wear sun screen (for example)?. How many guys are in denial about physical 'weakness' and never grew out of their child-like sense of invulnerability?

... and I have seen lots of research that married people generally live longer than single. Again - because they take better care of themselves - and have someone 'to live for'.

I think more and more we will see evidence as well that happy people live longer than miserable, lonely people, wherever they are. Granted a bad environment = malnutrition, bad air, bad water, poisons etc all have an affect on 'misery' of a different sort.


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