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Five theories about why middle-aged, white Americans are dying at such shockingly high rates
National Post ^ | November 6, 2015 | Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post

Posted on 11/07/2015 6:08:40 AM PST by rickmichaels

"Half a million people are dead who should not be dead," Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in economics told my Post colleagues Lenny Bernstein and Joel Achenbach.

Deaton, an economics professor at Princeton, was talking about the stunning finding that he and his wife, Anne Case, made while analyzing U.S. death data from the past few decades. The researchers found that the mortality rate for white men and women ages 45 to 54 with less than a college education took a sharp turn upward in 1999 - a disconcerting reversal that has been virtually unheard of in advanced countries.

To put that number into perspective, Deaton estimates that a half-million deaths is "about 40 times the Ebola stats." He added, "You're getting up there with HIV-AIDS."

The couple's study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, offered a number of possible reasons that this might be happening. And since its publication, other experts have weighed in on other trends that might explain this phenomenon. Below is a look at five of their theories. Many of them have to do more with psychological distress than traditional causes of death such as heart disease or lung cancer.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: health; middleage
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To: Jonty30

The most likely reason is despair. Whites have taken a beating in the last thirty years in terms of employment.


I agree


21 posted on 11/07/2015 6:30:42 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: sagar

When the American Dream died, it was everyone’s fault.


22 posted on 11/07/2015 6:32:58 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: Jonty30

The most likely reason is despair. Whites have taken a beating in the last thirty years in terms of employment.
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BINGO....in very large measure. Whites have also taken a “cultural” beatdown also with much of the media and establishment on a jihad to make whites feel guilty for the problems of others. I predict that next “they” will be coming for the Asians in America.


23 posted on 11/07/2015 6:33:10 AM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose! Does TG have to be an ass every day?)
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To: rickmichaels

People in that age range who actually have a career (since many have been displaced by those up-and-coming diversity hires who are 10 years younger) don’t have “time” to get sick. So, they work through the pain, skip the vacations, work the overtime, and then die from the undetected cancer or the heart disease that they wanted to do something about but never had the time.

Add that to the fact that they are expected to care about the company like they own it and they need to work like a 25 year old yet their income declines each year while downsizing increases their workload. Then they get their new 25 year old diversity hire boss one day who hates them because they are middle aged and white.


24 posted on 11/07/2015 6:37:19 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: sunrise_sunset

So age 52 is middle-aged, and age 54 is middle-aged, but age 53 is not?


25 posted on 11/07/2015 6:38:54 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: baltiless

Wow you have been through a lot of medical issues at 46. May you have complete recover and many more years. Never understood those claims that if you made it to a certain younger age that you will probably live to a much older age. Like I’m 59 so I’m expected to live to 85 or more? Who knows except God and there are no guarantees.


26 posted on 11/07/2015 6:40:21 AM PST by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: rickmichaels

FR had this discussion 10 years ago where I pointed out that in hospitals the aging baby boomers were dying fast, that when someone hits the ED they are dead within hours with little that can be done to save them. Their arteries were like tissue paper from extremely bad diets. Some boomers hated that I said that. Well, here it is again.


27 posted on 11/07/2015 6:40:45 AM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: rickmichaels

I knew a guy not too long ago that got wiped out in family court, lost his kids, then came to work drunk, then fired, then just let himself go - about 45 years old at the time.

Be interesting to see a study done of middle-aged white men that married someone OTHER than an American-born woman...they seem much happier.


28 posted on 11/07/2015 6:41:28 AM PST by BobL ( (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: rickmichaels

too much playing video games; too much porn; too much fast food.


29 posted on 11/07/2015 6:43:03 AM PST by Eternal_Bear
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To: Vermont Lt

Hormonal contraceptives.


30 posted on 11/07/2015 6:44:00 AM PST by Tax-chick (You have 21 days to get ready for the Advent Kitteh!)
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To: baltiless

Remember MLK’s words “...longevity has its place”.


31 posted on 11/07/2015 6:45:22 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: BobL

Did he commit suicide or become homeless?


32 posted on 11/07/2015 6:46:10 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Eternal_Bear

‘He who isn’t busy being born is busy dying’......Bob Dylan

PS.. Breakfast-—time for my cholesterol filled eggs and butter on the bagel plus the cream in my coffee.


33 posted on 11/07/2015 6:48:30 AM PST by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: rickmichaels

Most are not going to the Doctor. Too damned expensive.


34 posted on 11/07/2015 6:49:20 AM PST by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: rickmichaels

We are not dying. We are being taken out to keep social security semi-viable.


35 posted on 11/07/2015 6:49:39 AM PST by ImaGraftedBranch (If you haven't figured it out, there is a great falling away...happening before your eyes.)
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To: rickmichaels
The five reasons in a nutshell... the wages of sin is death

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Believe the Gospel:   how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

People are dying at alarming rates because they have no foundation they are empty vessels searching to fill there voided life with anything other than:   the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ!

 
 
 
 
 
 

36 posted on 11/07/2015 6:53:38 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Jonty30

Try finding a job as a 50+ white male....I can’t even get a call back, let alone an interview.


37 posted on 11/07/2015 6:53:53 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Actually, it is harder on a person repressing that rage.


38 posted on 11/07/2015 6:55:05 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: rickmichaels

The end of the American dream?

Winner!


39 posted on 11/07/2015 6:55:44 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It gets late early around here..." Yogi)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I refuse to let the bastards wear me down.


40 posted on 11/07/2015 6:56:40 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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