Faith and Family are core values.
beans... beans...
good for the heart...
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If I didn’t have to pay for my visits, I might visit the doctor more often too.
“But many others have long called the data wrong or anomalous.”
I would like to see a study of the health problems and costs of various “Latino” sub groups. I bet that the health statitistics of Mexican immigrants with less than 12 years education (the majority of the illegal population) and their children are very bad. I know people in the health business near the border. Diabetes is very common amongst Mexicans along with obesity and hypertension... all of which lead to high cost skilled nursing facilities.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the long living Italians in Roseto PA. The incredible longevity ostensibly stems from family and community living. (Lack of heart disease) It has a positive effect on health. Could be the same phenomena with Hispanics that share that trait.
I wouldn’t expect anything different. Every time I’m in the hospital E.R., it is packed with Latinos getting their free primary care. They will outlive those of us who foot the bill. Then what?
The middle class has to pay for their own health care and thus get less of it.
Note: When I took statistics there was a high correlation between the number of eyeglasses sold and auto accidents. i.e., the were both increasing annually. However stopping the sale of eyeglasses would not reduce the number of auto accidents because there is no causative relationship.
You cannot prove anything with statistics.
Natural selection through centuries of abject poverty and hardship has resulted in physically strong, long-lived people. Give the group 50 years on the American diet, absence of parasites and the resultant obesity*, soft living, stress, and auto accidents, and they will crap out just like the rest of us. These figures don't include the "drive-bys," either!
*drop by the local hi scrool and check out the enormous "anchor babies."
I looked at the source study, never wanting to rely on the SJM for anything.
I wish they would have analyzed cause of death. My guess is that this cohort is not subjected to a variety of cancers that others are. I doubt if lifestyle, diet or environment has anything to do with it.
It could just be that they are actually dead.
They recently found in Japan that many supposed centenarians were actually already dead. The families just never reported them so they could keep collecting bene’s from the gov’t.
Always wondered how Japan had long life expectancy when a third of the men smoke.
Now I know.
It’s simply due to the fact that Latinos get much more regular exercise than gringos: Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cumbia, etc...
More exercise.