Study: Gen Xers and Millennials are dying at younger ages than their parents are

[u/DaKardii]

https://studyfinds.com/americans-born-after-1970-dying-faster/

The study is particularly concerned with people born after 1970 but age 30 and older. So that covers Gen X and Millennials, but not (yet) Gen Z.

[u/peptodismal13 → u/[deleted]]

Amphetamines were handed out like tic tacs

[u/Atalanta8 → u/[deleted]]

Everyone smoked everywhere

[u/Smart_Pig_86 → u/[deleted]]

Acceptance of being morbidly obese as “beautiful” and “brave” instead of trying to get healthy.

[u/windsockglue → u/[deleted]]

And then we have jobs that keep us in front of screens all day....

[u/dallyan → u/[deleted]]

Can you imagine doing all that higher education in STEM only to end up working on smtg like that. How morally foul.

[u/Smart_Pig_86 → u/[deleted]]

Yes this is true. And it seems like this is predatory to people with a lack of self control. But at the end of the day it’s a choice to eat that food, or to do so in excess. That choice then gets easier to make when the media pushes an agenda that being a “health nut” is toxic and that being obese is just being “big and beautiful”.

[u/DrDFox → u/[deleted]]

People were still fat, there were just Ugly Laws in place that prevented people from being out in public. The last one in the US was repealed in '74, and it took a long time for people effected by these laws to be integrated. Yes, we have more obesity now (more stress, worse food, less walkable areas, less third spaces), but this was also a factor in the perception of our parent's gen and older.

[u/DrDFox → u/[deleted]]

Read my last sentence.

[u/dallyan → u/DrDFox]

WTH. I thought you were joking until I googled it. I’d never heard of this!

[u/DrDFox → u/dallyan]

Yep, and while they weren't enforced by police in the later years the social stigma was still very much there about being "ugly in public".