life expectancy

Omega-3 fatty acids are tied to reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, blood clots, and inflammation. The American Heart Association recommends eating oily fish such as salmon, anchovies or sardines twice a week because of the health benefits of omega-3 acids.

Eric Zuesse The least unreliable international rankings will here be linked-to for the various nations, on: per-person income, economic growth-rate, economic equality, happiness (perceived well-being), percentage in prison, murder rate, life-expectancy, perceived democracy of government, trust in the government, and governmental corruptness. The complete rankings will be shown only for happiness, because that might be […]

Americans should have an advantage over other countries in terms of life span due to its economic position. But life expectancy has decreased. In 2019, there were 483,000 excess deaths in the US that were higher than normal, but in 2021, the number rose to 892,000 excess deaths that amount to 1 in 4 deaths.

Eric Zuesse The United States has experienced decreasing life-expectancy ever since 2014 (when it peaked at 78.9 years), but in the latest year that the World Bank reports, 2020 (which was the first year of the covid-19 pandemic), this decline greatly accelerated, by plunging 1.51 years (1.8 years for men, and 1.2 years for women), […]

We're publishing an original piece today by an engineer in which he has tried to calculate the total loss of life due to Covid in 2020 in England and Wales and compared it to the impact of other diseases.
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drawing by Nancy OhanianThere's much more to "Black Lives Matter" than police brutality, the tip of the ugliest aspect of American society.Just 8% of African-American voters cast ballots for Trump in 2016. That seems like an awful lot. But, hey, how many Jews who were fanatical about law-and-order, nationalism or anti-Communism voted for Hitler?

Trump states have lower life expectancy. Is that because they embrace Trumpist policies that make them more likely to die sooner than normal people? Or is it the deleterious impact of those policies that cause them to embrace Trumpism in the first place? Monday, Paul Krugman took a closer look: America's Red State Death Trip.

Life expectancy in the United States has dropped 2 years in a row. Yikes.

The Western diet is no longer unique to the United States. Many countries the world over have adopted a diet laden with *excess* salt, fat, sugar, and other health-compromising ingredients. Now, people are literally paying for it with their lives, according to a recently published global study. [1]
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Death expectancy, safe havens and a pet cemetery + this day in history w/"Dimebag" Darrell and our song of the day by Sonny Knight & The Lakers on your Morning Monarchy for December 8, 2016.