4 facts about health in the 21st century
How do house prices change due to the demographic situation, how many hours a day does life expectancy increase, what percentage of the world’s GDP is spent on fighting cancer and its consequences, and how much on diabetes?
1. The maximum human life expectancy is increasing by about 6 1/2 hours per day.
And the maximum average life expectancy by country has been rising steadily since 1840, and this increase has not slowed down even in recent years.< /p>
First place in terms of life expectancy, according to WHO data for 2014, is Monaco with 89.57 years, second Macau 84.48 years and third Japan with 84.46 years
This constant growth is not characteristic of the dynamics of most indicators of the human organism. For example, world records in running or high jumping improve more and more slowly over time.
Life expectancy growth in individual countries may be accelerating or slowing down, but the level of the world’s highest life expectancy is growing fairly evenly.
In other words, although individual countries have had difficulties in reducing mortality, humanity has always solved these problems and continued to move forward unceasingly.
2. 1.5% of the world economy is lost to cancer
American financier and philanthropist Michael Milken likes to repeat:
“At least 50% of economic growth over the past half century has been due to increases in life expectancy. By improving its quality, health and medical care, we can make the economy grow. When we defeat cancer, the world economy will grow by 100 trillion dollars.”
More realistic estimates show that the damage caused by cancer to the world economy is 895 billion dollars per year /about 1.5% of world GDP/.
And this amount does not include the direct costs of treating cancer patients. Malignant neoplasms are in the first place among diseases in terms of the amount of damage they cause to the world economy. In second place are cardiovascular diseases – 753 billion dollars.
The economic damage from cancer can be visualized like this – every year, malignant neoplasms take as much money from the world economy as if an economy the size of Turkey disappeared from the planet every year – about 1 trillion. dollars.
3. 3,804 kilocalories – peak caloric intake in the US
From a nutritional perspective, the 21st century in the US began with peak calorie consumption in the year 2000 – 3,804 kilocalories on average per person per day.
In 1961, this indicator was 2,881 kilocalories, and subsequently it constantly increased. However, in the 21st century, the energy value of the US diet began to decline.
Possible reasons for this are a whole host of things – due to compliance with healthy eating recommendations, the financial crisis, the financial crisis that forced most Americans to “tighten their belts”, an increase in the proportion of the working population engaged in intellectual work relative to , which is engaged in industries requiring physical exertion to perform official duties, etc.
By 2009, the caloric content of a serving for Americans was already 3,688 kilocalories.
4. By 2026, all the money spent on health care in the US will go to the treatment of diabetes and its consequences
The diabetes epidemic will consume the entire public resource – such are the estimates of Robert Lustig and his colleagues from the California University of San Francisco.
After the public lectures – “Sugar – the bitter truth” – almost 5 million views on Youtube and “The fat chance. Fructose 2.0” – almost 400 thousand views on the same website, Lastig became one of the most famous doctors after the mythical Doctor House.
