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Health Update: McDonald's wrappers, antibiotics, freaky weather, creaky railroads and population control (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Medicare or Social Security benefits to anyone who reaches retirement age, so perhaps it's finding new ways to make sure people never reach retirement age! Keep 'em alive long enough to work 'em to death and collect their tax revenues, then knock 'em off before the benefits kick in! It's not as far fetched as it sounds: Social Security payout benefits start at age 65, and the average lifespan of a U.S. citizens is currently 77.6 years. But within the next fifty years, that number is expected to fall to 72.

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

Many Americans will likely struggle to keep working well beyond the traditional retirement age, or they will try to turn to an overstretched or already failed social safety net for help. Some may have nowhere to go. Meanwhile, faced with a broad array of pressing financial concerns, state and local governments, as well as the federal government will also look to dump some of their no-longer-tenable promises. In the spring of 2006, the Wall Street Journal noted that many states had implemented rules requiring health insurers to cover the adult children of members still living at home.

Those who haven't managed to provide for their own future will discover that the official retirement age, which will likely be pushed back by at least ten years over the next few decades, will be little more than a milestone that marks another phase of life on the job. Health care coverage will also be in short supply, and those without insurance will be forced to rely on dwindling private charity, personal networks, or self-treatment. Repositories of expert knowledge and other resources available at little or no cost on the Internet may be the only alternative.

Health Update: McDonald's wrappers, antibiotics, freaky weather, creaky railroads and population control (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Before long, the retirement age will be higher than the average lifespan age, meaning that you'll actually have to wait until the afterlife to start collecting your retirement checks.

The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe Lynne Mctaggart See book keywords and concepts

Now they were approaching retirement age, and among the wider scientific community most of their work still had never seen the light of day. They were all Christopher Columbus and nobody believed what they'd returned to tell. The bulk of the scientific community ignored them, continuing to grip tightly to the notion that the earth was flat. The space-propulsion activities had been the only acceptable face of the Zero Point Field. Despite their rigorous scientific protocols, nobody in the orthodox community was taking any other discoveries of theirs seriously.

Be a fiscal patriot: die early and save your government from bankruptcy Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I'll give you one: most people conspire to kill themselves before retirement age by avoiding exercise, eating processed foods, refusing to take nutritional supplements and gulping down dangerous prescription drugs. If there's anyone to blame for dying early around here, it's the people who refuse to take care of their own health. I mean, let's face it: an informed consumer doesn't have to eat hydrogenated oils at all. C'mon... it's listed right there on the label!

Or, to save it, our lawmakers will just keep raising the retirement age to make sure nobody qualifies to collect. Pretty soon it will hit 70, then 75, and then 80. All they have to do is raise the age to the point where fewer than 5% of the population even lives that long. Let's face it: social security is just a legalized Ponzi scheme -- a system of generational theft that takes money from one group of working people and hands it over to another. And just like a classic Ponzi scheme, the promises can't be met.

Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH See book keywords and concepts

Nevertheless, some physicians and public health officials persist in talking about the overall state of improvement of our health, using the fact that many more people today reach retirement age than did people 100 years ago. The real test of general health is not how many reach the age of 65, but how closely can we push the average age of death to the theoretical limit of 110 to 120 years. We have improved a little. A 55-year-old man in 1900 could expect to live another 17 years on the average. Today, that same man can expect to live about 20 more years.

Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Older people around retirement age are most vulnerable to this effect. It is estimated that at least 9 million people over the age of 50 frequently feel lonely or cut off socially. Blood pressure could end up 30 points higher when people feel isolated.578 When you are lonely, stressful events can become even more challenging. Try to nurture friendships and social support networks. They may help you lower your blood pressure as well as reduce your need for medication.

Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH See book keywords and concepts

Epidemiologists have claimed that our society is healthier than it has ever been, using the infant mortality rate and the increasing number of people living to retirement age as their key criteria. Some conclude that the high-tech diet has been the main factor in bringing about this apparent high state of good general health. However, the high incidence of chronic disease (every second Canadian, for example, has one or more chronic disease) contradicts this claim, as does the ever-increasing cost of medical care.

Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C) See book keywords and concepts

Epidemiologists have used measures of health which indicate that our society is healthier than it has ever been, namely the infant mortality rate and the increasing number of people living to retirement age. Some conclude that the high-tech diet has been the main factor in bringing about this apparent high state of good general health. The high incidence of chronic disease (every second Canadian has one or more chronic diseases, for example) contradicts this claim, as does the ever-increasing cost of medical care.

Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest Peter Pringle See book keywords and concepts

Past retirement age but still farming, Percy Schmeiser had lived an uncomplicated life on the Canadian prairie. For forty years he had grown crops of bright yellow rapeseed on his fourteen-hundred-acre family farm. He had been an assemblyman for the province of Saskatchewan and a mayor of his local township; in his spare time Schmeiser had climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and tried three ascents of Everest. In 1998 he was looking forward to giving up the farm, the politics, and the mountain climbing to go fishing.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Senility is another problem with many doctors continuing to practice long after they reach retirement age. A final reason is ignorance—doctors who are otherwise mentally and physically healthy may fail to keep up with medical research. The second major reason doctors can be deadly is simple incompetence and poor training. Students who could not qualify for admission to American medical schools often attend unaccredited schools in the Caribbean. Sometimes those who can't get a medical license simply practice without one or use a fraudulent degree.

Age Erasers for Men: Hundreds of Fast and Easy Ways to Beat the Years Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine See book keywords and concepts

Although they usually don't become a problem until you near retirement age, cataracts often start forming much earlier in life, especially if you have ever had an eye injury or have undergone radiation treatments, chemotherapy or an organ transplant. Over the years, the once-clear lens in each eye may turn yellow because of protein buildup. In time, the lens may become milky white and translucent, clouding vision to the point where you need an artificial lens implant. This plastic replacement lens does not flex to focus light, as the original lens did.

Living Downstream Sandra Steingraber See book keywords and concepts

In the last year, researchers have ruled out the possibility that the rate is skewed by a high retirement age population; the most significant elevations in breast cancer are occurring among women younger than 65 years old. They have also ruled out most factors of lifestyle and inheritance: smoking, alcohol consumption, early detection, reproductive history, and family history of breast cancer are not significantly different on the Cape.

The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World's Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs James A. Duke, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Forty percent of smokers die before they reach retirement age. But all the talk about premature death goes over the heads of the teenagers who start smoking and the young adults who won't quit. The hazards of smoking just seem too far off to them. That's why I like to remind young smokers I know that the habit hits men in the penis and women in the face. That's right. Smoking damages the blood vessels that supply the penis, so men who smoke have an increased risk of impotence.

Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care Jane M. Orient, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Except for a part-time nurse, who was well past retirement age when we started and who worked for me until her vision and health failed, I have never had an employee. I have volunteers. My mother immediately volunteered to be my office manager, receptionist, and all-around helper. My father volunteered to be the charter, keyed charperson. (Unlike chairman or human, charwoman refers to only one sex. My father said he was not a woman, and he'd never heard of a charman, so he would be the charperson.

The Origin Diet: How Eating Like Our Stone Age Ancestors Will Maximize Your Health Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Infant death rates are lower than / nr\\ ever, and 80 percent of the babies born today can expect to live to retirement age. Much of this improvement in life quality comes as a result of recent discoveries. By the middle of the last century, most of the vitamins had been discovered and enrichment of processed grains helped lower, but not eliminate, the risk of common nutrient diseases that had plagued people since the development of agriculture, including pellagra, beriberi, and anemia.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Top Sellers,"23 which account for nearly 30% of all prescriptions written annually, almost three per person. By retirement age, about 80 percent of the population are taking prescription Major Cosmetic and Toiletry Ingredient Poses Avoidable Cancer Risks Press release by Samuel S, Epstein, MD, February 22,1998 As reported on CBS Morning News today, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) recently found that repeated skin application to mouse skin of diethanolamine (DEA), or its fatty acid derivative cocarnide-DEA, induced liver and kidney can* cer.

Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control Stanton Peele See book keywords and concepts

Edith Gomberg, director of the University of Michigan Institute of Gerontology, notes that while men's drinking declines for the most part around retirement age, for women the most precipitous drop in heavy drinking occurs after age fifty. In a national survey, 10 percent of women aged forty-five to forty-nine were heavy drinkers, but only 1 percent of those over fifty were. The drop in heavy drinking for women at this age is closely paralleled by a drop in suicide.15 Gomberg calls for a reevaluation of standard wisdom on the trauma of retirement and other events in later life.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civilizations Donald Ryan See book keywords and concepts

On the other hand, far be it from me to be a dream-squelcher! If you're willing to accept the negative employment possibilities, then by all means go for it Just know what you might be getting into. If it works out, great. And if it doesn't, don't worry about it. Be prepared and make the best of it. Given the limited employment opportunities, you might be able to argue that it's even better to be an amateur archaeologist than a professional. That way you can participate to the extent that you like, without having to deal with the economic uncertainties and much of the politics.

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