While life expectancy in the US continues to improve, says the report by researchers at University of Washington in Seattle and Imperial College, London, it is not increasing as quickly as in other Western countries, so the gap is widening.
“The researchers suggest that the relatively low life expectancies in the US cannot be explained by the size of the nation, racial diversity, or economics,” says the document, which ranks the US 38th in the world for life expectancy overall.
“Instead, the authors point to high rates of obesity, tobacco use and other preventable risk factors for an early death as the leading drivers of the gap between the US and other nations.”
Perhaps each visit to the dentist takes a few months off our life span (wink-wink).
Perhaps it’s attributable to disparities in the national health care systems.
#1 — That’s pretty low — and snarky, too. It certainly doesn’t help distract me from the fact that for one of my particular medical conditions, the best care in the world is in London and, if I were a British citizen, I wouldn’t be worrying about paying the medical bills for top-notch care, either.
I can’t afford to go to the dentist. Guess you think badly about me because my teeth aren’t perfectly straight and professionally whitened, then. Whatever. Apparently, the propensity toward Hollywood smiles, implants, and Botox isn’t making America healthier.
Ummm …. gun laws, or the lack thereof?