[aiilns]

Are doctors not already telling people to eat healthy & exercise?

> 12 hours work/day

> ads for unhealthy food

> lots of cheap tasty unhealthy food products in supermarkets

Have we really done the best we can as societies that the only thing left is to find a drug?

Within a system that promotes and often demands unhealthy lifestyles, we are doomed to scramble to find ways to battle emerging disease to enable our sick lifestyles.

[TaupeRanger]

Even in the presence of healthier lifestyles, the human body would still accumulate problems as part of the normal aging process. It's not like Alzheimer's would just go away if people started going on more walks and ate more vegetables. It's not an "emerging disease".