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May 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Chris Moncrieff
06:40 EST, 16 May 2012
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07:40 EST, 16 May 2012
Old age of youth: People from wealthy backgrounds can expect years of health and activity into their retirement, a survey found
Get rich – and live longer! That appears to be the superficial message in projections just published by the Office for National Statistics. But what their figures are trying to demonstrate is not so much about the wealth that someone generates for himself that affects his life-span, It is where you live, whether you are rich or poor, which seems to be the determining factor.
The report suggests that people who live in well-to-do areas can expect to reach the age of 70 before illness or disability sets in, whereas those who dwell in the poorer parts of the country are more likely to find that they are unable to enjoy an active and healthy life beyond 55.
It surely won’t be long before the pundits and pontificators are crying out their all-too-familiar slogan: ‘What is the Government going to do about it?’
It is another angle on the so-called North-South divide. Ill-health, we are told ad nauseam, is largely brought about by too much of what is regarded as unhealthy food, smoking and an excessive intake of alcohol – activities which are widely associated with people who live in poor areas.
Scotland is considering introducing a minimum price for some alcoholic drinks in a bid, it is claimed, to cut down on illness and deaths caused by alcoholism. But the cynics will tell you – and probably rightly – that hardened drinkers will almost certainly simply spend more money on drink and thus create more hardships for their families.
Grim prospects: Those living in areas of deprivation face a shorter life limited by illness and disability
Life begins at 70: Those living in the wealthiest parts of the country can look forward to long and healthy retirements, new figures show
And the TV chef Jamie Oliver is forever preaching to people about the evils of consuming what he calls junk food. Yet does anybody listen? And Edwina Currie, when she was a Conservative MP railed at those who smoked too much, or even at all.
It is true that the numbers of people smoking seems to have dropped dramatically. But whether this decrease is constant throughout the land, is debatable. Anyone walking around the streets of most north of England towns will notice no apparent decrease there in the amount of smoking. They are still puffing away as much as they ever they did.
And will the arrival of the BBC in Salford, not regarded as a wealthy area – far from it – add to life expectancy there with the presumable increase in the number of jobs available and an enhancement (one hopes) of the feel-good perception?
Opportunity: Will the BBC’s new media complex in Salford increase life expectancy in the area, because of the job prospects it brings?
The brutal truth is that despite everything, the prospects of Utopia are beyond us, and there will always be, to a greater or lesser degree, areas of relative wealth and relative poverty which seem to determine how long we live.
But we have to be thankful for the fact that the scale of poverty and degradation in the days of Hogarth have long since passed. And we need to be grateful for that.
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The BBC move to Salford?
This will reduce the life expectancy of those BBC employees who make the move. It won’t increase that of residents already in Salford!
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Not so sure about this – I know quite a few people in their 80s and even 90s who don’t live particularly wealthy lives. I think they’ve just made the right choices, ie stayed active, ate healthy (not expensive, just healthy fruit and vegetables and meat consumption), haven’t drunk excessively or smoked.
It’s actually plain old common sense really. Money and wealth can cause deaths – if you don’t make wise choices, your choices will catch up with you. There endeth my opinion!
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