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Princeton economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton who won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, made an incredible discovery after a careful analysis of health and mortality data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources between 1999 and 2013. They found that a group of middle-aged white Americans (ages 45 to 54) have an increased mortality rate that continues to increase. This trend is especially alarming as the death rate of other advanced countries, like the United Kingdom, have been declining by about 33 percent.
In the findings of the economists, education seemed to be a factor for the middle-aged white Americans. For those who had a high school diploma or below, the death rate increased by more than 20 percent. Compared with the mortality rate of this group prior to its previous rate from 1979 to 1998, about a half million lives have been lost between the 1999 to 2013 period to something other than chronic disease or aging - something that could have been avoided.
According to the study by Case and Deaton in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the mortality rates of middle-aged white Americans has rapidly increased due to things that could have been avoided. After analyzing health and mortality statistics, they reported that the epidemic of alcohol/drug abuse, diseases formed from those abuses (such as liver disease), and suicide are to blame.
Just as there is a huge disparity in wealth in the USA, I think there is a huge divide among the population as to wellness.
David Rockefeller in on his 6th heart transplant, is in his 90s, and says he loves the feeling he gets after receiving a new heart.
There are those who are educated and disciplined in alternative health care, in eating natural foods, and the science of wellness. These people are statistically lumped into the mass of obese, unfit, junk-food eaters. I think that those who know health care and practice it will far exceed the average longevity of the total population.