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yawnmaster

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4. Oh jeeeze...we are in our 50's and beyond, of course our health is getting worse!!

Reply to dkf (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2012, 03:50 PM

Oct 2012

What braniac came up with that headline.
We are well over half way through our lives...
What, our health is going to keep IMPROVING until our death date, then poof, dead???

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Study: Baby Boomers’ Health Very Poor, Getting Worse [View all] dkf Oct 2012 OP

Baby Boomer Bashing is on Wednesdays, not Mondays n/t leftstreet Oct 2012 #1

The debate is Wednesday... Earth_First Oct 2012 #2

Oh, shoot...did I miss the circumcision thread? lapislzi Oct 2012 #7

Yeah, but let me tell you... Mr.Bill Oct 2012 #3

Oh jeeeze...we are in our 50's and beyond, of course our health is getting worse!! yawnmaster Oct 2012 #4

Why are they spinning it to portray us as prematurely frail? pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #5

A dingo ate my baby boomer! flamingdem Oct 2012 #6

! pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #8

!! Chorophyll Oct 2012 #22

!!! BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #23

!!!! leftstreet Oct 2012 #25

spinning it to imply how terribly unhhhhealllthy boomers are -- how much monnnnney it will cost HiPointDem Oct 2012 #20

Durn 47-percenters!1!! pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #24

All BBs? Or just Australian ones? WinkyDink Oct 2012 #9

Hmmm. Maybe that's why SheilaT Oct 2012 #10

I guess I'm one of the Lucky ones then. Blue_In_AK Oct 2012 #11

I suspect the Aussie boomers had to deal with premature senility pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #13

I understand a lot of the generation before us is already dead. bemildred Oct 2012 #12

Being Raised on a Farm Helped Redlo Nosrep Oct 2012 #14

"Old people getting old." Brickbat Oct 2012 #15

I guess that's why the retirement age so desperately needs to be raised.. Fumesucker Oct 2012 #16

Maybe obesity is a secret government weapon to keep people from collecting SS. dkf Oct 2012 #17

+1 HiPointDem Oct 2012 #21

+2 pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #26

Obesity is up among all ages. Jennicut Oct 2012 #18

This is an Aussie study of American boomers? Habibi Oct 2012 #19

It's called ageing. Welcome to reality people. bluerum Oct 2012 #27

Food Posioning 4 years ago HockeyMom Oct 2012 #28

My health is fine. But it won't stay that way much longer if the repukes get their way kestrel91316 Oct 2012 #29