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 ...
Something else, then.
I’m sorry you have had to deal with being sick. God bless you.
A lot of whites have been murdered since Obama came to office.
Yes.
I guess the guy was a vet and in great shape. Not like “steroid” great shape, but not an ounce of fat on him. Very athletic.
Dropped right into his lunch. Face first.
By the end of the day he was awake and the Doctors are trying to figure out what the hell happened.
I’m sorry to hear that Baltiless.You have my prayers ((((Hugs))))
The actor Kevin Sorbo also had a completely unexpected stroke. Maybe it was hereditary arteriosclerosis.
They have a similar problem in Scotland , particularly in the Glasgow area.
Men in that age group dropping like flies.
Main cause seems to be the diet and low exercise
Diet consists of chips, beer and butties.
Butties are inch thick white bread slices, soaked in egg, fried and served with bacon.
Meanwhile the Greek island of Ikaria has one of the highest population densities of people over 90 in the world.
video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPn79iHSuOw
You know, lately I’ve been coming around to this line of thinking..
We are all so hell bent on living a very long time and does that really make sense?
I have my 91 yr old dad living with us most of the year and am watching this brilliant man slowly lose his memory. What do we do when it’s all gone?
This past weekend, we buried a beloved brother-in-law at 76 because he smoked his brains out all his adult life up until his last week on earth and loved every puff so he died happy...
Don’t know if not eating sugar, beef, fat, etc. is really worth it...little grasshopper.
BTTT
It may be that obamacare is refused to the older American taxpayer citizens as the regime hates those who can think and talk against their evil.
Yea.
I know two relatively successful men who killed themselves this summer. That is a huge number compared to the number of people I know.
Well I just read the article and they say it because of suicides,OD’s,Divorce etc.It not natural causes.
Death of the body is just the beginning of life eternal..Jesus is the Lord of life eternal or death eternal.
Jn.3:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
I should know as well about being constantly pissed off. Not only that but I feel pissed on every day.
Divorce is not a specific cause of death, although it may be a precipitating factor in suicide, overdose, alcoholism, etc. On the other hand, alcoholism, drug use, and so on may be causative factors of divorce.
Darn you.
Sounds like what we call “French toast.”
Yes I too refuse to take statins. After taking Crestor I had muscle and joint weakness/pains. Scrooge that.. Now I just take a low dose BP med, baby aspirin and eat balanced diets (red meat and butter included). Make some green smoothies and drink red wine. When the body can’t hack it anymore its time for the human junkyard called the cemetery. We all check out sooner or later
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