[HN Gopher] The sad state of U.S. life expectancy
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The sad state of U.S. life expectancy
Author : Avshalom
Score : 6 points
Date : 2023-03-26 22:28 UTC (33 minutes ago)
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| fastaguy88 wrote:
| It would be very interesting to look at life expectancy trends
| over time for income quantiles in the US and other developed
| countries. My understanding is that there is are large
| differences in life expectancy associated with income and wealth
| in the US. I wonder if those differences are as dramatic in
| countries with longer life expectancies.
| imwithstoopid wrote:
| obesity...the story tries to pin this on COVID but COVID was
| mostly a fast-forward for obese people (or old people, or in the
| worst case, both)
|
| there are still some people who think COVID impacted fit people
| equally...as if it were some random lightning strike
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| the least obese state as of 2019 is more obese than the most
| obese state as of 1990
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| literally no one is making progress
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| now the rest of the world is adopting the American lifestyle and
| catching up to us on obesity too
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| we dramatically underestimate the amount of physical activity we
| need
|
| we dramatically misunderstand nutrition
|
| next up in the US is people moving from merely obese to morbidly
| obese - 200lbs+ will be normal...300lbs+ is next-level
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| HN has this weird thing where they tell me "correlation does not
| equal causation" so we can't really say obesity is related to
| diet and exercise
|
| suuuure
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