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Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases d... by ShabbosGoy on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:27PM (#16228766)
Aren’t we? People are living longer than ever before. The issue is in determining effect size. I’m sure some amount of all those things you mentioned is “good” in some sense, but in what quantity and for how long?
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Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases d... by azemetre on Thursday January 25, 2018 @12:32AM (#16228995)
People are "living longer" because child mortality has fallen dramatically.
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Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases d... by klmr on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:17AM (#16230138)
Not only. Life expectancy has increased in every age group percentile. But the effect is obviously not due to tea, coffee and turmeric. Rather, it’s due, mainly, to (a) better general nutrition, (b) better hygiene, and (c) modern medicine, especially antibiotics and vaccines.
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Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases d... by croon on Thursday January 25, 2018 @03:53AM (#16229662)
If in making those statistics one didn't account for that I'd be very disappointed, but it doesn't look like that's the case. [1][2]

[1] http://life-span.healthgrove.com/l/51/50

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62587/

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