If our nutrition has gotten so much worse...?!

If our nutrition has gotten so much worse...?

than why is it that we live to be in our eighty's now and are so much taller than we were just a few hundered years ago? I know they say we're killing ourselves with food and we should go back to how our ancestors ate, but weren't our near ansestors 5'0" and died at age sixty? And if you go back to our far ansestors, who we suposedly REALLY should be eating like if we want to go to an extreme, well they were really short and died really young. Doesn't it seem like our easy access to food has done us more good?

You have to consider that people who are currently in their 80's and 90's grew up in the early 1900's. This was immediately after the industrial revolution. And with that revolution came better ways to sanitize food as well as more knowledge with how to handle food. Absolutely, our ancestors died much younger, in part to food, but it wasn't the nutrition of the food so much as it was how it was kept and prepared. You try feeding a family of 12 with out a freezer and see how many live!! So to answer your question, it's not the nutrition that keeps us living longer so much as our ability to keep food free of bacteria and knowledge of how to prepare it safely. That's why people are now living into their 80's. . that in addition to the fact that the Television didn't go mainstream until the 1950's so people were active and had to go out and do things for entertainment. So now we have all this prepared, packed food that can sit on shelves for months and still be 'good' and we eat it while we sit in front of the TV that didn't exist 70 years ago. That's why we are not more healthy today. We have access to both good and bad foods; the fact is that American society chooses not to eat the good foods and we will see a decline in lifespan in the next generation.