The steady rise in mortality is due, I believe, to: 1) use of GMO’s which are banned in many European countries, 2) increased pushing of and use of pharmaceuticals instead of getting to the root cause of illnesses, 3) push to have plastic surgery, 4) explosion of fast food places replacing home cooked meals, 5) high carb diets, 6) decreased exercise, 7) drug trafficking. Despite multi millions spent on research and medical advances, there is still a high infant mortality d/t poor prenatal care, smoking during pregnancy, drug use before and during pregnancy, poor nutrition during pregnancy and post birth hyper dilution of formula to “stretch” the formula d/t poverty, lack of income or poor use of funds on junk food, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol.