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Compare life expectancy to to the obesity map by county: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IuAaSjijj2g/V8XGTciCe0I/AAAAAAAA4Pc/XaKNqs2UzRkgxmbSsLxg8inh_kRaGRSvwCLcB/s

• pclmulqdq 3y ago
  The thesis that this has anything to do with medical technology seems wrong. Life expectancy around the world has a lot more to do with lifestyle than with technology or available money to get it. Americans generally have terrible lifestyles.
• remarkEon 3y ago
  Yeah, this life expectancy divide is just a map of obesity. Even the counties referenced in TFA up through South and North Dakota echo the obesity prevalence. A friend gifted me a copy of this book (American Nations) and I quit reading it because, while somewhat novel, these regional distinctions make no practical sense. There is a wide, substantial difference between someone from Minnesota or Iowa and someone from New York or New Mexico. I get why the author drew the distinctions that way, but they aren't useful or meaningful.
• photochemsyn 3y ago
  That map correlates fairly well with this one of per-capita gallons of soda soft drink consumption: https://healthmap.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/gallons-of-soft-drink-consumption-in-the-us/ https://healthmap.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/gallons-of-soft-d...
  • fortran77 3y ago
    Obviously fat people consume more! Fat isn’t created out of thin air, despite what the obese claim about genetics.