![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, though in 2050 we will undoubtedly face much more resilient germs, medicine in 2050 will likely be able to deal with them more efficiently than today. With each passing year doctors accumulate more and better knowledge, which they use in order to design more effective medicines and treatments. Though science owes a huge debt to serendipity, doctors don’t just throw different chemicals into test tubes, hoping to chance upon some new medicine. In 2010 famine and malnutrition combined killed about 1 million people, whereas obesity killed 3 million.ĭoctors, in contrast, count on more than mere luck. ![]() Half of humankind is expected to be overweight by 2030. In 2014 more than 2.1 billion people were overweight, compared to 850 million who suffered from malnutrition. For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little more people die from old age than from infectious diseases and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined. ![]()
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