http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012 ... tancy.html

Life expectancy has fallen for white people without high school diplomas - 5 years for women and 3 years for men. Life expectancy continues to rise for everyone else.

What do you think?

Carbohydrates are the culprit.

We need to bring back cigarette smoking so living longer becomes a life choice.

And maintain Social Security retirement at 65.

Come to think of it, poorer and less educated tend to smoke tobacco more.

And eat more carbs.

Steak or Pasta

Cholesterol or Carbohydrates

The Result of decades of Nanny State mis-education.

If you select steak and cholesterol over pasta and carbohydrates, you will live longer & better.

Moi

aka E.P.

E.P.? Forgot already. Ask Bob3 Ex-BFF

Monsatan's GMO "cheap" foods.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:54 pm Carbohydrates are the culprit.

Steak or Pasta

Cholesterol or Carbohydrates

The Result of decades of Nanny State mis-education.

If you select steak and cholesterol over pasta and carbohydrates, you will live longer & better.

According to Wikipedia, the Japanese have the highest life expectancy in the world. Japanese cuisine is based on combining staple foods, typically Japanese rice or noodles, with a soup and okazu — dishes made from fish, vegetable, tofu and the like – to add flavor to the staple food.

curious_guy (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:40 pm According to Wikipedia, the Japanese have the highest life expectancy in the world. Japanese cuisine is based on combining staple foods, typically Japanese rice or noodles, with a soup and okazu — dishes made from fish, vegetable, tofu and the like – to add flavor to the staple food.

Well "A" must logically conclude, "B".

How about Japanese Americans.

How about the quality of Japan's prenatal care so when born into the world, you are on the best footing possible.

Japanese live longest. Must be their diet and not the size of their plates.

I :hearthrob logic.

Remember: Romney sez middle class is 200-250K/year.

Therefore, Romney will create better quality jobs then Obama's 30K-40K/year jobs.

Logic. Don't ya just it.

Moi

Biology does NOT observe, logic!

It happens.

Americans are becoming more and more obese. The state leading the parade is Mississippi, which is full of those uneducated Whites, who are I believe, more likely to also smoke cigarettes. Even in Oregon, probably 70% of the people I work with are obese, several of them morbidly so. These stats don't surprise me a bit.

Earlier this week a report suggested, no it warned all of us, that most Americans would be obese by 2030. Here’s how ABC News’ Dr. Maureen Braun explained the warning: “By 2030, more than half of Americans could be obese, resulting in millions of new cases of diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke — a constellation of illness that could cost the United States up to $66 billion in treatment and over $500 billion in lost economic productivity.”

It was a summary of a new 124-page report released on Tuesday by the “Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It’s title? “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future.”

At present, 36 percent of us are considered to be obese. By 2030 it is anticipated that 50 percent of us will be fat.

In a state-by-state comparison, Mississippi, which has a fat ratio of 35 percent right now, will be at 67 percent of its population in the fat category. Minnesota? Right now, 26 percent of us are rotund. This study says 55 percent of us will be considered portly.

link (http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/201 ... y-epidemic)

Yes I do Moi, one is in la la land the other in reality.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:57 pm Yes I do Moi, one is in la la land the other in reality.

River

Oh.

Are YOU the butterfly or the dream?

So it's mainly uneducated white people who eat a high carb diet? Uneducated blacks and hispanics show increasing longevity. In fact, hispanics have longer life expectancy than anyone else. What does it all mean?

I suspect that a lot of it is due to the rising percentage of people without health insurance, among which the least educated are the most affected. Our present health system is so dysfunctional for all but the wealthy and the luckily employed. Without regular health and dental care the life expectancy is going to go down. QED

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