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March, 1970
The
PLAIN TRUTH
11
LEADING CAUSES
of
DEATH WORLDWIDE
47%
Note that heart disease, e specially, is a disease of affluent societies,
while infectious and parasitic diseases take the most lives in
developing countrie s.
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HIGHLY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
39%
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
19%
12%
10%
8%
S%
3%
2%
6%
6%
4 %
2%
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DISEASES OF
CANCER
OLD AGE
VIOLENT
DEATHS
ULCER,
INFECTIOUS
ALL
HEART AND
BLOOD VESSELS
- You'RE JT! ...
Statistics, steadily pil–
ing up, repeat this refrain: the more
affiuent the nat ion, the more coronary
disease
its
people suJfer"
(Look,
Febru–
ary4,1969).
Sadly cnough, Britain, Canada, Aus–
tralia and now increasingly Japan and
Gcrmany are suffering from the same
problem as the United Statcs. The
advaoced or more heavily industrialized
nations are paying dearly for their
advances. Malaria, dysentcry, cholera
and tuberculosis are b<::ing replaced
with thrombos is, arteriosclerosis and
coronary.
The devdoping nations in l atin
America, Africa and Asia carry on their
rnajor battlc against the infectious and
parasitic diseases. Lack of sanitation,
poorer education and slowly developing
medica! facilities have hampcred rapid
advances in these areas.
Our advanced nations have simply
DEATHS
AT BIRTH
APPENDICITIS,
ANO
OTHER
INTESTINAL
PARASITIC
OBSTRUCTION,
DISEASES
replaced the infectious and parasiti c dis–
cases with coronaries and cancer. An
amazing and yet needless parallel.
According to D r. Paul Dudley White,
noted heart specialist, "Heart disease
before eighty is
om· ja11lt-
NOT
Goo's
WILL"
(The Famo11s
Docto,~s
Grlide to
Y om· Heart,
Joseph Franklin Montague,
p.
13, emphasis ours ) .
Middle-aged a t Twenty-one
U. S.
Army studies covering the wars
in both Korea and Vietnam show young
American soldiers to be aging before
their t ime. Autopsies perfo rmed on
battle dead showed a higher incidence
of arteriosclerosis ( harden ing and clog–
ging of the arteri es) among Vietnam
battle victims than Korean dead.
"Dr. Coopcr said the Korean war
study found that as many as 30% of
soldiers bctwecn
18
and 22 years of age
'showed significa nt signs of hardening
of the arteries.' . . . The new study
ETC.
.4mbossoclor Col/es• .4rt
shows that 'We have more signs of
heart disease among 18 to 23-year-old
mcn than we had in the Korean
war.' ... In both studies, the men were
apparently healthy when they were
killed . But the d ogging of the arteries
would have made them prone to heart
attacks later in life. . . . Dr. Cooper
blamed the situation on lack of exercise,
a hig h fat diet and cigarette smoking"
( Los Angeles T imes,
January 28,
1969 ) .
And remernber these men had an
average age of only twenty-one. I t
wouldn't sound so bad if they had been
fifty or sixty, but twenty-one and with
ha rdeniog of the arteries ? Also remem–
ber this was a cross section of the prime
of American youth, the cream of the
crop, the two out of seven examined
who were accepted for military service.
What must the rest be like ?
"A generatíon of marshmallows" is