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Re:Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to ... by amelius on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:24AM (#26646937)
That's an unfair comparison, because these people all had a Mediterranean diet.
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Re:Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to ... by kkoncevicius on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:01AM (#26647403)
Yes OK, but the comparison interesting to me is how much did medicine help. If people lived to their 80 in those ancient times, just with some diet, then medicine is surely not giving us much of a longer live span today.
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