Hmm? It did describe the major reason, and it wasn't younger people killing themselves in accidents or infant mortality: Right away, they found our weak spot

Hmm? It did describe the major reason, and it wasn't younger people killing themselves in accidents or infant mortality: Right away, they found our weak spot. "U.S. women have relatively high mortality rates at the younger older ages," they said, which means when women hit their 55th birthdays, for the next almost 20 years, roughly 55 to 75, they will die more often than women in comparable countries. Americans get more lung disease, more heart disease, more diabetes. If Americans reach 75, they get competitive again, but that early old age is where we lose ground. American men showed pretty much the same weakness at roughly the same times. They just haven't been able to explain why this discrepancy at this age exists. Did you not see that part, or did you have some disagreement with it? I have not read the full report that it was based on yet, so I can't comment in detail: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62373/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62373/