Life Expectancy

Today in class we talked about life expectancy. Life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. We talked about why the life expectancy rate may be different for people our age compared to people older than us. Some factors that may contribute to this are more advanced medicine, drugs, unhealthy eating habits, and diseases. For example, medicine is always changing so the "modern medicine" from when our grandparents were kids is less advanced than how it is now. There is also a higher use of drugs in our generation compared to past generations.