Golden years shorter, sicker in Southern states

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Overall, Americans who make it to 65 have about 19 years of life ahead of them, including nearly 14 in relatively good health, the CDC estimated.

But the South and parts of the Midwest clearly had lower numbers. That's not a surprise, experts said.

Southern states tend to have higher rates of smoking, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and a range of other illnesses. They also have problems that affect health, like less education and more poverty.

These are issues that build up over a lifetime, so it's doubtful that moving to Hawaii after a lifetime in the South will suddenly give you more healthy years, they said.

After Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia and Alabama had the lowest numbers for both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. States with the best numbers included Florida — a magnet for healthy retirees — as well as Connecticut and Minnesota.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-health/20130718/US-MED-Life-Expectancy-States/

[GandD 5,966]

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[mota bhai 2,675]

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You're still young, move to Minnesota!

[GandD 5,966]

You're still young, move to Minnesota!

The wife still wants to live in Toronto with her fam. Ugh, Canada.

[mota bhai 2,675]

The wife still wants to live in Toronto with her fam. Ugh, Canada.

Tell her Canadians go to Vermont to get MRIs, that will change her mind.

[GandD 5,966]

Tell her Canadians go to Vermont to get MRIs, that will change her mind.

Yeah the only problem with that is she lived there for many years so she'd she the ignorance in that statement.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

You're still young, move to Minnesota!

In the history of the world only one human has retired from the south to the north

[Darnell 8,478]

The wife still wants to live in Toronto with her fam. Ugh, Canada.

So make that happen, soonish !

[GandD 5,966]

So make that happen, soonish !

I can't, I've spent too much time on this immigration forum. Too late to start on another one.

[X Factor 1,112]

Florida actually has something positive?

[Bugs 455]

This has nothing to do with where you live. It has everything to do with the lifestyle that you live.

Edited July 20, 2013 by Leon & Mylen

[GandD 5,966]

This has nothing to do with where you live. It has everything to do with the lifestyle that you live.

Food availability has a little to do with it. The only fresh fish we can get here in KY is catfish.

[Bugs 455]

Food availability has a little to do with it. The only fresh fish we can get here in KY is catfish.

That's kind of a poor excuse for not eating healthy don't you think?

Besides, it isn't so much a matter of what you eat, but how much of it you eat.

[GandD 5,966]

That's kind of a poor excuse for not eating healthy don't you think?

Besides, it isn't so much a matter of what you eat, but how much of it you eat.

Don't get me wrong. We eat right. Just saying it weighs in you know

Portion size, you're 1000% correct. We always have leftovers when we eat out.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Overall, Americans who make it to 65 have about 19 years of life ahead of them, including nearly 14 in relatively good health, the CDC estimated.

But the South and parts of the Midwest clearly had lower numbers. That's not a surprise, experts said.

Southern states tend to have higher rates of smoking, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and a range of other illnesses. They also have problems that affect health, like less education and more poverty.

These are issues that build up over a lifetime, so it's doubtful that moving to Hawaii after a lifetime in the South will suddenly give you more healthy years, they said.

After Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia and Alabama had the lowest numbers for both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. States with the best numbers included Florida — a magnet for healthy retirees — as well as Connecticut and Minnesota.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-health/20130718/US-MED-Life-Expectancy-States/

But our women are so much hotter. Anyone here ever been to New York at looked at the chicks. .Haints all of them.

Southern girls rock.