We are Superhumans compared to people who lived in 1900

What was happening around 1900 here in the U.S.?

People seldom lived past 40 to 60 years of age.

The term "Born died 20 buried 60" applied to most people who lived to be 30, excluding those who died in childbirth or as children or young adults.

As more people went to High School here in the U.S. the level of understanding about life not only here in the U.S. but regarding life all over the earth started to grow.

Even when I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s (I was 21 in 1969) many people didn't even graduate from High School. Girls then often left school at age 15 and started living with a man in his 20s or 30s and this was a relatively normal thing to see then. 15 seemed to be an acceptable age for young women to move on in their lives if they were Blue collar or poor. And for many this was a step up at that time.

In the 1930s when Social Security first started almost no one lived long enough to collect it in their lives because age 65 was a goal that was unreachable by most then.

But, this started to change in the 1950s especially for women even though this wasn't true for men yet. But, over time, people became educated more about exercise and diet from people like Jack La lane and the Jack La lane show on TV in Los Angeles in the 1950s. I used to exercise as a child with my mother and Jack La lane while watching him on black and white TV. He also inspired people to start jogging and to eat right. He also on weekends often did amazing feats like towing a rowboat to shore from Alcatraz island with his hands tied behind his back and things like this only using his legs for propulsion.

My father who was way ahead of his time like Jack La Lane had also studied with Paul Bragg and so we also ate a lot like Jack La Lane did and exercised a lot like him. So, by age 12 I started jogging a mile a day and continued this until I was about 40 and had to stop because of microfractures in my feet  from jumping off of roofs when I was 9 to 15 years of age. It became too painful to jog anymore.But, walking fast was still okay.

During the 1950s I saw many people in the building trades die (usually from heart attacks or strokes) between ages 40 and 57 because of poor diet, drinking alcohol and smoking. And also people tended to have dentures then a lot because of Coca Cola and a lot of sugar. And when you combine a lot of sugar with a lot of meat your teeth tend to fall out a lot. So, many people had dentures (false teeth).

So, if you compare humans today just to the 1950s it is like night and day health wise. People are at least 10 times more aware of health and how to stay alive longer than before.

So, are we superhumans compared to the 1900s right now?

The answer has to be "Yes" for most people in the U.S. right now.

Most people in 1900 couldn't imagine living to 80 or 100.

Now many people at 80 are as healthy as 40 year olds were in 1900.

Even now I notice I am healthier than most 50 year olds I knew in the 1950s even now at age 67.

So, don't expect to experience what your parents did at the same age because this is a new and ever changing world now.