[manic4organic]

They put the lard in lard@ss.

[BitWielder1]

Just wait until they're forced into Obamacare, then that will change.

[kabar]

What is an Hispanic?

[dr_who]

Perhaps their typical occupations are different. Less office work, more footwork and manual labor in other words, less sedentary lifestyle.

[dr_who]

At birth, Hispanics can expect to live 80.6 years; that's about 2.5 years longer than the non-Hispanic white population and about 7.7 years longer than blacks.

I wonder if they ever try correlating such numbers to the percent of each group that draws > X % of their income from government checks.

[dr_who]

The most insulting part of the article:

But Delgado agrees with researchers on one important point: The enhanced lifespan enjoyed by Hispanics could be jeopardized by health habits acquired in the U.S.

[Straight Vermonter]

lower levels of ... access to health care

I love that! As if there are bouncers keeping Hispanics out of hospitals.

[AuntB]

Hey, if I got free healthcare, food stamps, housing subsidies, free legal representation and had hundreds of tax funded outfits like Maldef protecting me, I’d likely live longer too!

[denydenydeny]

Interesting. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was somehow another vitamin D thing.

[BroJoeK]

"At birth, Hispanics can expect to live 80.6 years; that's about 2.5 years longer than the non-Hispanic white population and about 7.7 years longer than blacks. Overall, the life expectancy for the total population was 77.7 years..."

Most likely some kind of statistical quirk, along the lines of:
Hispanics who die today in their 80s may have grown up or come to this country at a time when spartan living and hard physical work was the norm -- and the combination made them healthier than today's generation, which often gets neither.

Or, perhaps many Hispanics return to their home countries when they become old enough to think about their end-of-life, and where they want to be buried.
Those who decide to die here may be just the ones most happy with their lives -- and happy lives often mean longer lives...

Of course, it would be most interesting to learn if the typical Hispanic diet was actually more healthy for them. ;-)