Question is about heart disease ?

In early 1900.s heart disease was not even in the tenth percent cause of death ? Now it is the number one killer why? Can any doctor answer my question and that is in the 1900,s they eat steak grilled over coals, they drank pure whole milk, eat butter with everything ,used animal fat like lard ,eggs , bacon cooked with these products ,eat sugar like pies, cakes, donuts etc. Also drunk like crazy and chew and smoke cigs, and cigars too ? Well explain why they were in better health than we are ? Can it be the pills, the air , the steroids that are injected in the chickens and pigs and cows we eat ? Is this the reason we as americans are getting fat and sicker that anytime before ? Please answer that !

You have basically answered your own questions. I was raised on a farm and we ate everything, and we worked hard and I have never had any heart problems. There are so many chemicals in the air today and in the food. Our body is 3/4 water so you must drink lots of water to flush out the toxins. Take your body weight and divide it by 2 and that is how many ounces of water you should drink daily. As well we need to be on supplements as the soil is so depleted of minerals and nutrients and we need to excercise daily. I thank God for health and I am 77 years young in acouple of months. If I can help further email me at newbegin@shaw.ca Source(s): am a Nutritionist Consultant

Its our lazy life style. You gotta take into consideration the amount of work a person had to do back then for their job. Not just sit back behind a cubicle all day. The extra calories we have, the more fat builds up in the blood. Which is the main cause of heart related issues.
Americans are generally lazy and fat. Life style combined with your genetics are the main reason for heart disease. It's not what is in food. We all know that. It is a choice. People still eat the junk instead of the healthy food.
First let me premise this by saying I am not a doctor, but I work in a cardiac cath lab as a tech.

The answer is in the average age someone lived in the 1900s.

Not too many people got to an age where heart disease would have been a problem. Today, we have a low percentage of people that have disease as early as their mid 30s, and if not many of us survived past our 50s then heart disease wouldn't be a problem.
Another reason is that we've cured a lot of diseases that killed people back in the early 1900s. Polio killed thousands back then; it doesn't kill hardly anybody now. We just haven't gotten around to curing heart disease yet.
Simple, two things to help clarify and answer your question. First consider the time period, 1900's?? long time ago. In that time you were blessed to live past 60 years old. Which brings up my second point, when people died back in those days it wasn;t all that uncommen to not know for sure what they died from. They often catergorized this as dying from "old age." I havn;t heard that expression in years, mainly because we can now figure out what they died from. So, no, its not in the air pills or chickens, heart disease has always been around we are now living long enough to see it and can diagnos what it is. Same goes with Cancer my friend.

~ Chris
EMT-Paramedic