Life expectancy is falling, and the Flynn effect is reversing. Both increased due to better nutrition, healthcare, and reduction of toxins (especially lead). Did we put something significant into our food, water or air to make it worse again?
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The article mentions surveys as source and speculates wildly about possible causes without talking at all about the surveys. I just assumed that this "health level" is self assessed. So maybe just the perception changed? Then even google/wikipedia could be an additional factor?;)
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But the data don't apply to the time of the financial crisis. Also, if you consider the result to be psychological, would you not expect that younger people are less resilient than old ones, so health goes down at all ages, instead of just seeing a reduction in healthy years?
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