a lot of illness is man made. did you know the average life expectancy in the US is dipping? a lot of it is inequality, lots of poverty, lots of people stuck in dead end lives....
while others move on up and up. so, avarice...'for love of money is the root of all sorts of evil,' plays a role, too.
poverty kills. it kills thru obesity, nutritional deficiencies, hi-stress, high rates of incarceration, community violence, inadequate access to good food. and then...
surprisingly, being very rich can kill, too. anorexia is more prevalent among the affluent classes. suicide and drug use rates are bad at the low and high ends of the social spectrum. which leads the middle, but...guess what's been decimated by decades of economic and social policies in the US? if you said the middle class, you'd be correct. :-(
other than that...foods are often genetically modified, factory farmed, loaded with chemical soups. my personal solution is to load up on massive doses of nutrients, antioxidants...
(fingers crossed) so far, so good. its also easier and more profitable to create new diseases, disorders, syndromes and push $$$ Rx treatments than it is to make society less crazy insane and sick-making. so, there's that. :-(
blah. feeling kinda disillusioned this afternoon, lol.