(2006-08-03) Century Health Improvements

Maybe HealthCare isn't such a big problem after all. New research from around the world has begun to reveal a picture of humans today that is so different from what it was in the past that scientists say they are startled. Over the past 100 years, says one researcher, Robert Fogel of the University Of Chicago, humans in the industrialized world have undergone "a form of Evolution that is unique not only to humankind, but unique among the 7,000 or so generations of humans who have ever inhabited the earth."... The biggest surprise emerging from the new studies is that many Chronic ailments like heart disease, lung disease and arthritis are occurring an average of 10 to 25 years later than they used to. There is also less disability among older people today, according to a federal study that directly measures it. And that is not just because medical treatments like cataract surgery keep people functioning. Human bodies are simply not breaking down the way they did before.