Modern society and health

[Southern_Gent]

One of the things I often wonder about is if modern society is contributing to all the various health problems that we're seeing today. We're seeing rise in diabetes and heart disease rates, though that has been linked to diet. Yet there are all these different forms of cancers these days, and I'm wondering if these are the results of living in the midst of various forms of pollution (be it air pollution, water pollution, RF fields, etc). Of course, the flip side of the coin is that people didn't always live this long, or have the ability to discern the different causes of death that happened in earlier times.

Any thoughts on this?