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Imterstingly there’s a pretty much 1:1 correlation between air quality and longetivity, much stronger than just wealth disparity. The longest lived areas in the
by aphextron 9y ago
Imterstingly there’s a pretty much 1:1 correlation between air quality and longetivity, much stronger than just wealth disparity. The longest lived areas in the US are Hawaii (constant supply of clean air via tradewinds, total lack of heavy industry) and the high mountain valleys of Colorado/Montana.
- gascan 9y agoThere's more going for Summit County than clean air and wealth. http://www.businessinsider.com/summit-county-is-the-healthiest-in-the-us-2017-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/summit-county-is-the-healthie... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-healthiest-state-in-the-country-has-some-of-the-steepest-premiums/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-healthiest-state-in... https://www.aspentimes.com/news/regional/study-summit-county-has-the-highest-life-expectancy-in-the-nation/ https://www.aspentimes.com/news/regional/study-summit-county... https://www.summitdaily.com/news/2017-year-in-review-great-health-news-for-summit-county-but-at-a-steep-cost/ https://www.summitdaily.com/news/2017-year-in-review-great-h...
- lisper 9y ago"A lot of what makes Summit County so healthy is also what makes the other four Colorado counties in the top-10 ranking for life expectancy so healthy: an over-representation of higher-income, young, white residents relative to national averages."