I own/manage a small Farmers Market in my community. We are a co op and we sell locally grown fresh vegetables. Just today while my sweetheart and I were picking green beans to replenish our supply for the market we were talking about the gardens we worked while we were kids. We were kids working outside in the sunshine picking vegetables and eating our fill of the raw goodies. Nowadays kids are indoors playing video games eating processed foods laden with chemicals/pesticides, etc. This article reminded me of our conversation and the fact that kids consume a lot of things that aren’t good for them.
You are right and yet as our lifestyle has become more sedentary with more processed foods our life expectancy has gone up and up. Perhaps this is the end of it, we are coming to a tipping point and it will begin to decline. But so far I see many reports of imminent doom and yet we continue to live longer than ever.