This is the first time since the 1960s that life expectancy in France has decreased for men and women.
The statistics would show that it is among people over 65 that we must look for an explanation. Two cyclical factors could thus explain the increase in mortality among the elderly in 2015: a more severe and less well-protected influenza than in previous years and two extraordinary climatic episodes: heat wave in July and cold in October …
Source INSEE 2016
IQ: A CURVE IS REVERSING
IQ has been increasing forever. It is now permanently down. Attempts to explain.
A British study shows that the average intelligence quotient (IQ) has been falling in France and in most Western countries since 1990. More serious according to this same study, all this suggests that this decline will only increase.
Many tracks are evoked, declining education, stressful pace of life … The most serious assumptions refer to dietary and environmental changes.
Source: A negative Flynn effect in France, 1999 to 2009, Edward Dutton, Richard Lynn, Elsevier 2015
CAUSES OF DEATH: EPIDEMIC ALZHEIMER.
With nearly 400% growth between 1990 and 2009 Alzheimer’s ranks as the highest progression of causes of death in France.
While the most pronounced declines in the causes of death are cardiovascular diseases, accidents, sudden infant death, AIDS and to a lesser extent cancers (which consecutively become the leading cause of death in France), we observe a exponential growth of deaths caused by Alzheimer’s (+ 373% between 1990 and 2009) followed by Parkinson’s (+ 25%) and diabetes (+ 21%).
Source : CepiDC Inserm 2012
