People are dying of cancer and heart disease now because we've defeated most of the historically more common causes of death.
We die of Cancer and heart disease because that's about all that's left that can still kill us.
Yes , Infectious diseases dominated mortality
of humans making heart disease[deaths] relatively
"uncommon".but the non-existent claim is absurd
...and a number of individuals who studied anatomy
Since the Renaissance in centuries prior to 1900,
made note of arterial blockage and hardening.
One just need look up the records of:
Leonardo Da Vinci,
Giovanni Morgagni (1682 -1771)
William Heberden (1710 - 1801)
Edward Jenner (1729 -1823)
Caleb Parry (1755 -1822)
Rudolf Virchow (1821- 1902)
