HEALTH COACH - Who lives longer? The study reveals that Colorado wins 20 years

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 Who lives longer? The study reveals that Colorado wins 20 years  

 A study after study showed that, when Americans live, they have a great influence on their lifespan. A new study, Monday, reveals that the difference exceeds 20 years. 







 And this also shows that obesity and diabetes - caused by poor diet and lack of exercise - could be responsible for much of this difference in expectation of life. 







 
 
 The longest life expectancy - up to 87 years - was in the central skiing country of Colorado. The lowest - 66 - was found in southwestern South Dakota, along with other parts of the Dakota, Appalachia and the Mississippi Basin near behind. 







 Dr. Christopher Murray and his colleagues at the University of Washington examined the life expectancy and risk of death for each county across the United States from 1980 to 2014. 







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 Overall, they confirmed that Americans live longer. Boys born in 2014 can expect to live 77 years and girls to 81.5. But there is a difference of 20 years when the lifetime is examined by department, according to the Murray team. This is on average five years more than in 1980. 







 "Several counties in South Dakota and North Dakota (typically those with Amerindian reservations) had the lowest life expectancy and counties along the lower half of Mississippi 39 east of Kentucky and southwestern West Virginia also had a very low life expectancy compared to the rest of the country, "they wrote in their report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Internal Medicine. 







 "On the other hand, the counties in central Colorado had the best life expectancy," they wrote. 







 As other studies have shown, economic status and ethnicity have much to do with life expectancy. Rich whites tend to live longer than the poor and blacks and Amerindians. 







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 But when the team reduced these differences even more, they found that "behavioral and metabolic risk factors" accounted for 74% of the differences. Smoking and obesity - caused by poor diet and lack of exercise - are the main culprits when Americans die too young. 







 
 
 "This study has revealed significant and growing geographic disparities between counties in life expectancy over the last 35 years." The magnitude of these disparities requires action- All the more urgent because inequalities will only increase if recent trends are allowed to continue to be undisputed, "the team wrote. 







 Access to health care accounted for the bulk of the rest of the difference, according to the team. 







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 The Indian Health Service has been heavily criticized for not providing adequate health care, especially on some reserves in the Dakotas.  








   " Several counties in South Dakota and North Dakota (typically those with Amerindian reservations) had the lowest life expectancy." 
 
 And the United States is involved in a new debate on how best to deliver health care, with Republicans in Congress seeking to repeal and rewrite the Affordable Care Act, 2010, credited Get health insurance to 20 million Americans who have not done it before, while being criticized for not cutting costs. 







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 State legislatures and state councils are also asking themselves to impose or restrict the sale of sugary soft drinks and fatty foods that are responsible for the worsening of the disease. obesity.