Presumably at least half of those people would still get Cancer just later.
Clearly there is value to being fit and healthy throughout life, but there's also value to living in the moment. I've been enjoying cigars quite a bit recently, I'm not particularly interested in cutting that out of my life to weight the die a bit more in favor of a few more years on the planet. And I'm saying that as someone who was holding my wife as she took her last breaths after a ruthless and painful battle with cancer.
Should we stop treating lung cancer for lifelong smokers? Cardiovascular diseases for obese? We could use those resources to treat other diseases.
I think Europe and Japan has to at some point come to terms that just how long are we willing to expand lives of the elderly. And at what cost?
Sports is good as long as it's „healthy mind in healthy body“ attitude. But beyond that...