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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:28 AM Original message |
US Drops to 49th in the World for Life Expectancy |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. I bet we drink more soda than any other country. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. Isn't the US one of the leading countries for obesity rates? Wonder if the two are related. n/t |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. We used to be #1 |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Would be interesting to show a chart w/ correlation between obesity rates & life expectancy. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:30 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Would be "interesting" to see this pseudo-science and faux-statistics, too. |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 04:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Have at it.... |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
3. USA! USA! USA! |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. This Canuck disagrees |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
4. We are slowly joining the 3rd world in living standards |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
5. Wage stagnation, declining wages, limited access to health care, |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:05 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Industrialized nutrition and medicine. |
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COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
8. WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! Whoops - ..oh, shit nt |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
9. That can't be! We're NUMBER ONE at everything! |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
12. I think I'll go back to school to become a mortician. |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
13. What was it was at the end of the Clinton era? |
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Heywood J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Here you go: |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 02:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Does that show the world ranking? |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
14. To the "soda" and "obesity" preachers: "What is the biggest problem? Critics say the biggest issue |
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DLnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
16. "Versus", not "Verses" |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
17. But if you ask the teabaggers |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
18. Gee, I wonder if our health care system being inaccessible to |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. +1 |
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1955doubledie (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
22. Kicked and recced |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. Blame our crappy FOR PROFIT health care system. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
24. In 1950 we actually had a monetary system created to help |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
25. Yes but, Rah Rah Rah we're the best |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
26. why do Americans die before other countries |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
27. It couldn't possibly be stress from the constant fearmongering in the media and the never ending |
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