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US life expectancy rises for first time in 4 years
AP ^ | 1/30/2020 | AP

Posted on 01/30/2020 6:15:57 AM PST by FatherofFive

U.S. life expectancy has improved for the first time in four years, thanks to a sharp decline in the cancer death rate and to a drop in fatal drug overdoses. The new increase is small, but marks at least a temporary halt to the trend. (Jan. 30)

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KEYWORDS: magababies; trumpsfault; wuhanvirus
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To: Vermont Lt

“The really rich folk are not obese at all.”

My brother is very wealthy, $4.5 million dollar home wealthy.

He lives in a super wealthy area.

All the people are super fit. I’m 25 lbs overweight on a 6-3 frame and felt morbidly obese.

At his daughters HS graduation party all the moms were super hot and fit and numerous trophy wives.

No tat’s and no smokers either.


21 posted on 01/30/2020 7:01:50 AM PST by setter
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To: FatherofFive

I’m just hoping to make it six more to retirement!


22 posted on 01/30/2020 7:02:21 AM PST by freepertoo
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To: lonestar67
This is a hugely significant piece of news and yet it gets 50 words from AP.

Actually was surprised to see it reported at all. I guess the writers at AP didn't see the kill sign from Stephanopoulos in time.

23 posted on 01/30/2020 7:27:18 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: lonestar67

“This is a hugely significant piece of news”

It meant much less to me when I learned that it includes deaths due to accidents, suicides, drug use.

Excluding those what’s happening to life expectancy?


24 posted on 01/30/2020 7:28:07 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Sacajaweau

I agree. Drug overdoses, suicides, homicides, and any kind of accidental death shouldn’t be counted in the life expectancy rate. All of those things will bring the rate down especially since most of these involve younger people


25 posted on 01/30/2020 7:41:26 AM PST by susannah59
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To: FatherofFive

Growing up in the 1960s I heard that you can’t be too rich or too thin. Of course smoking helped, but in 1964 when the first Surgeon General’s report came out my parents quit.

I’m a cancer success story, with four bouts of prostate cancer in 17 years, I should have lived no more that 7 years.


26 posted on 01/30/2020 8:03:43 AM PST by cicero2k
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To: bert

My wife recently discovered some online pictures of me as a teenage sailor aboard the USS Saratoga, I could not believe how slender I looked. I was six four and about 190 and wearing jeans with a 33 waist size. I was born in 1944 and back then six four and 190 was big for a college football player, now someone that tall and thin looks like a skeleton. Two hundred was huge when I was young, now I weigh 238 without clothing and still only wear size 36 waist pants. The guys I knew as fatties in high school would be the little fellows now. The ones who were considered muscular then would look like runners now but most teenagers now are not half as strong as my high school classmates.


27 posted on 01/30/2020 8:25:02 AM PST by RipSawyer
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To: FatherofFive
Tucker will now have to stop issuing those Mount Olympus reports that Americans are dying in droves, the middle class is over and all of middle America is dead in their trucks from fentanyl overdoses...
28 posted on 01/30/2020 8:46:34 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: FatherofFive

To celebrate my longer life, I have extended my mortgage another five years.


29 posted on 01/30/2020 8:48:23 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

lol...something to live for?


30 posted on 01/30/2020 8:48:55 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

Yeah, I figure so long as I have bills to pay, it will be just my luck that I’m kept alive to keep paying them. Guys like me just can’t catch a break.


31 posted on 01/30/2020 8:53:35 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: VTenigma

Here in north Jersey we still have about one train strike per week; there is no recovery here due to self-inflicted Dem taxes and regulations.


32 posted on 01/30/2020 9:01:36 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: RipSawyer

When I was a teen, I had a friend named larry. Everybody called him fats and he was not insulted. Today, he would be pretty normal as a 13 year old


33 posted on 01/30/2020 9:47:35 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: kearnyirish2

I hear ya, I live in the Peoples Republic.


34 posted on 01/30/2020 10:32:02 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: FatherofFive

Jan 30: Flights from China halted.

Virus to strike down seniors.


35 posted on 03/31/2020 2:20:01 AM PDT by Does so (Call it the CCP-virus...The Corona-virus dies in sunlight! But next spring's Chinese virus?)
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