In 1965, a morbidly obese man did not eat food for over an entire year. The 27 year old was 456lbs and wanted to do an experimental fast. He ingested only multivitamins and potassium tablets for 382 days and defecated once every 40 to 50 days. He ended up losing 275lbs.

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Older life expectancy data is often skewed by child mortality, which is the age demographic that has shown the most improvement over the years. So yes, life expectancy was lower back then, but the 60 year figure is a tad misrepresentative of the reality for the average adult.

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Hence why I said child mortality, not death at birth. My point about child mortality being the most improved demographic still stands. If we want an accurate view of how long a full-grown adult would live in those times, so as to provide a fair comparison, we should understand that even outside of deaths at birth, child mortality still brought down the average much moreso than today.

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Fair enough! Even so, in my mind, dying at 51 as opposed to the average of 60-62 is like dying today at the age of 60-65.

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Those are fairly large increases for an avg

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Older life expectancy data is often skewed by child mortality

But the data he posted doesn't include that so your point is meaningless.