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Want to Live Longer? Move to NYC
Yahoo News ^ | June 13, 2012 | Natalie Wolchover (LiveScience.com)

Posted on 06/14/2012 1:08:31 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

While life expectancy in many parts of the United States is dropping, it has increased by 10 years in Manhattan since 1987. Researchers largely attribute that rise — the fastest in the nation — to a crackdown by the New York City health department on unhealthy behaviors.

Manhattanites can now expect to live to the ripe old age of 82, and the average life expectancy across all five New York City boroughs is 80.6 years. That's three years beyond the national average, and a striking turnaround since the city's low point in 1990, when life expectancy there trailed the U.S. average by three years.

The numbers come from researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, who recently estimated the life expectancies in all 3,147 independent American cities and counties each year from 1987 through 2009. Even with New York's success, the IHME team found life expectancy in the country as a whole lengthened just 1.7 years per decade, a slower pace of progress than in the world's most long-lived countries. (The United States ranks 50th in that regard, according to the CIA World Fact Book.)

So, why is New York doing so well, and how can other U.S. cities get their residents' longevities up to speed? [Infographic: A Day in the Life of the Average American]

According to the British medical journal The Lancet, most gains made during the 1990s aren't replicable elsewhere. The city ramped up its life expectancy by reining in homicide rates and HIV/AIDS-related mortality, both of which had weighed down the average at the beginning of the decade.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bans; biggovernment; cradle2grave; health; liberalism; marxism; nannystate; newyorkcity
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To: firebrand

Natalie is a scientific illiterate. Of course it’s the demographics of old people choosing to live in an oldster-convenient place, not actually people living longer just because they live in NYC. What an idiot.


21 posted on 06/14/2012 3:14:16 AM PDT by samtheman (If we want Obamugabe out, we must vote him out.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is a complete crock of shiite. Every decadent thing one can think of is performed in NYC in spades. The obvious reason for the longevity is the affluence of a large segment of the populace that can afford anything they want. And, more power to ‘em...Lies, statistics and damn lies....


22 posted on 06/14/2012 3:52:47 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
... to a crackdown by the New York City health department on unhealthy behaviors.

The connotation of crackdown befits the police state mentality of Bloomberg. Didn't Bloomberg recently say something to the effect that it was government's purpose to take care of the health of its people. Use of the possessive pronoun to describe the relationship of government to people is commonplace with liberals. Perhaps one day the health police will walk people on leashes to make sure they get their exercise. The benefits of living in Bloomberg's Dog Kennel just mount with every idea he imposes.

The absence of scientific objectivity from this article is not surprising because it is a propaganda piece. If we would all be good little pets, we could all live a few years longer.

23 posted on 06/14/2012 3:54:19 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: samtheman
"Natalie is a scientific illiterate."

Manhattan below 110th Street is one of the wealthiest areas in the United States, with a per capita income above $100,000. (The rest of NYC is a fraction of that. NYC's overall median is less than New York State's median.)

Rich people (everywhere, not just in NYC) live longer than poor people. For many of the same reasons that they are rich people, and not poor people. They make better use of the information that is widely available to them.

One can live very well in Manhattan, but it takes a lot of money! That's why most in the middle need to commute in from the suburbs.

24 posted on 06/14/2012 4:02:06 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well, I do want to live longer.
But not in NYC.

Hey, I was born in NY, and grew up upstate, have seen almost all of it.

Finger Lakes, Niagara Falls, the Adirondacks, Thousand Islands, NYC, Longggg Giland,,,

New York is shaped like a foot, and NYC is the heel!


25 posted on 06/14/2012 4:02:17 AM PDT by djf ("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: firebrand
First of all, a lot of old people come here or stay here, because it’s easy to have a life without a car,

And something like 100 people/day die in car accidents in this country so NYC is going to below average in that category.

26 posted on 06/14/2012 4:13:38 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

people don’t live longer in NYC...

they’re just kept on the voting rolls a few years after they die


27 posted on 06/14/2012 4:21:36 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Lying grifters are so predictable... we will now see a deluge of articles promoting NY nazi-ism. The same template used for gloBULL warming.

LLS

28 posted on 06/14/2012 4:29:49 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Having lived in Manhattan myself for 8 years:

You pretty much walk to everything and climb a lot of stairs. Those two things alone really make a difference. You don’t see a lot of very overweight people.

For those who mentioned subways after 6:00pm, etc., mugging, etc. - the city’s crime rate is much lower than the other major cities. That stereotype went out a long time ago. I live in Boca Raton now and I wouldn’t dream of going to Miami at night.

The rest is probably statistical noise. It certainly has nothing to do with the nanny Bloomberg initiatives.


29 posted on 06/14/2012 4:32:33 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: firebrand
Second, we have the BEST doctors and hospitals in the world.

Exactly. This has more to do with access to cutting edge medical technology than banning "sugary drinks."

30 posted on 06/14/2012 4:49:38 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Mayor Bloomberg's neighbors are all smart and all wealthy by most standards, are mostly thin or slightly overweight, don't smoke, get plenty of exercise by walking, and control their "easily controlled" mortality risks like lipids and hypertension. They would be as likely to want to drink a 64-ounce sugared drink as to want to lick the sidewalk at Times Square.

The mistake that Bloomberg and the rest of the nannies make is transforming the conservative advice of "you shouldn't do that!" to "you can't do that!" (Well, of course you can do that; it may be awkward or illegal, it may be a bad idea, but you still can drink 64 ounces of soda.)

31 posted on 06/14/2012 4:51:21 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

May as well attribute it to rent control. Those old folks ain’t giving up their $130 month apartment.


32 posted on 06/14/2012 6:02:21 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: firebrand

I just got back from six days in NYC. Fell in love with it!

Six days is not enough to see everything!

And yet, even the cabbies said they loved NY, but wish they lived somewhere else.


33 posted on 06/14/2012 7:11:19 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


34 posted on 06/14/2012 7:18:12 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: re_nortex
Aren't the elderly easy prey for the thug element that grip New York?

Contrary to popular belief, the "thug element" does not "grip New York." New York has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, crime rates of any large city. Even that number is exaggerated by some very rough neighborhoods (Brownsville, East New York, Hunts Point, etc.) that skew the crime numbers. Most of NYC is extremely safe, even at night.

Mass transit is a breeding ground for that type as witnessed by Bernard Goetz who was accosted by what we now euphemistically call the "Amish".

The Bernard Goetz shooting occurred nearly 30 years ago. Times have changed. I regularly have to work late and often take the subway late at night, and I've never encountered (or witnessed) a problem.

I'm old (just shy of 70) and I wouldn't visit much less live in New York City because of the criminals and the leftists (but I repeat myself) swarming over the Five Boroughs, maybe not as much in Staten Island.

I happen to think you're missing out, it's a pretty good city, though it's not for everyone and you certainly have to have a thick skin, politlcally (for instance, where I live, every local, state and federal representative is a Dem). I also think you're mistaken that criminals are "swarming over the Five Boroughs" (incidentally, there are some really rough parts of Staten Island as well)

35 posted on 06/14/2012 7:41:03 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Having worked in lower Manhattan and mid-town years ago, I can see how visitors would enjoy Manhattan. But it's not all there is to NYC. The drudge of commuting everyday and the privilege of paying a city income tax and sales tax does wear on the glamor. I'll visit (Manhattan) but I would never choose to live or work there.
36 posted on 06/14/2012 7:44:26 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Gabz

You won’t actually live longer if you move to NYC...but it’ll sure FEEL like it, LOL!

*BA-DUMP-DUMP* Thanks! I’ll be here all week. Try the veal and don’t forget to tip your Waitress! ;)


37 posted on 06/14/2012 8:53:30 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Well howdy, look who the cat drug in!!!!!!


38 posted on 06/14/2012 9:01:24 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Wait until Bloomberg makes running with scissors a felony offense.

No one will ever die in NYC.

39 posted on 06/14/2012 9:28:08 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Glad you enjoyed it. Sometimes I look around me and I still can’t believe I live here. It still has all its magic, plus now the special feeling of being home.


40 posted on 06/14/2012 10:32:03 AM PDT by firebrand
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