Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Wednesday, April 23, 2008


“It’s extremely unlikely that today’s children will have shorter life expectancies than their parents. From everything I see, we continue to make rapid progress at extending life as a result of improvements in medical technology and personal health practices," such as smoking less, says Samuel Preston, a professor of demography at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "Yes, we are fatter than we used to be but the implications of that have not been nearly as severe as has been popularly assumed."

And for proof of this we need only turn to the concurrent epidemic of anorexia, pfffffffffft.

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