Guest guest Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I did not realize that Canadians had the highest longevity of the Americas. Australia is on the par with Canada. Only Japan and Singapore are outstanding in Asia. In Europe, there is Iceland, as Rodney mentioned, but also Sweden, Switzerland, and Andorra. Italy has an area around Bologna, but remarkably, Sardinia, which supposedly has a lot of centenarians, is not it the dark green color. Andorra and Switzerland are land-locked. Maybe it is the Swiss cheese? Tony > > Hi Al: > > Interesting map. Worth noting that, for all the talk about the > wonderful benefits of the 'Mediterranean Diet', there isn't much in > the way of dark green around the Mediterranean in that map. Too much > olive oil probably. > > Perhaps we should be spending more time studying the 'Icelandic Diet' > instead? (The dark green for Canada must be in spite of, not because > of, the diet most people eat here.) > > Rodney. > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Life_expectancy_world_map.PNG > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Hi folks: Here is a useful little set of tables .......... assuming, of course, that they are accurate: http://www.os-connect.com/pop/p1.asp?sort=lepop Rodney. > > I did not realize that Canadians had the highest longevity of the > Americas. Australia is on the par with Canada. > > Only Japan and Singapore are outstanding in Asia. > > In Europe, there is Iceland, as Rodney mentioned, but also Sweden, > Switzerland, and Andorra. Italy has an area around Bologna, but > remarkably, Sardinia, which supposedly has a lot of centenarians, is > not it the dark green color. > > Andorra and Switzerland are land-locked. Maybe it is the Swiss cheese? > > Tony > > > --- In , " Rodney " <perspect1111@> wrote: > > > > Hi Al: > > > > Interesting map. Worth noting that, for all the talk about the > > wonderful benefits of the 'Mediterranean Diet', there isn't much in > > the way of dark green around the Mediterranean in that map. Too much > > olive oil probably. > > > > Perhaps we should be spending more time studying the 'Icelandic Diet' > > instead? (The dark green for Canada must be in spite of, not because > > of, the diet most people eat here.) > > > > Rodney. > > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Life_expectancy_world_map.PNG > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 On wonders what the ethnic-specific breakdowns are. Population diversity or its lack is probably a significant factor in many of the high or lower-than-expected scorings, if expectations are based by default on GDP. Maco At 03:24 PM 2/17/2007, you wrote: Hi folks: Here is a useful little set of tables .......... assuming, of course, that they are accurate: http://www.os-connect.com/pop/p1.asp?sort=lepop Rodney. > > I did not realize that Canadians had the highest longevity of the > Americas. Australia is on the par with Canada. > > Only Japan and Singapore are outstanding in Asia. > > In Europe, there is Iceland, as Rodney mentioned, but also Sweden, > Switzerland, and Andorra. Italy has an area around Bologna, but > remarkably, Sardinia, which supposedly has a lot of centenarians, is > not it the dark green color. > > Andorra and Switzerland are land-locked. Maybe it is the Swiss cheese? > > Tony > > > --- In , " Rodney " <perspect1111@> wrote: > > > > Hi Al: > > > > Interesting map. Worth noting that, for all the talk about the > > wonderful benefits of the 'Mediterranean Diet', there isn't much in > > the way of dark green around the Mediterranean in that map. Too much > > olive oil probably. > > > > Perhaps we should be spending more time studying the 'Icelandic Diet' > > instead? (The dark green for Canada must be in spite of, not because > > of, the diet most people eat here.) > > > > Rodney. > > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Life_expectancy_world_map.PNG > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Specifically, see http://www.webmd.com/content/Article/101/106141.htm which suggests that the white population in the US comes in somewhere slightly better than New Zealand (30th-ish), while our black population has the prospects of about New Caledonia (86th). The extent to which this reflects an underlying difference in longevity programming and to which it reflects disparate opportunities, environments, etc., remains unclear, but it seems likely that both are factors. Certainly room for improvement, as my seventh grade math teacher would occasionally write on my hurried math homework submissions, is there for all. Maco At 04:56 AM 2/19/2007, you wrote: On wonders what the ethnic-specific breakdowns are. Population diversity or its lack is probably a significant factor in many of the high or lower-than-expected scorings, if expectations are based by default on GDP. Maco At 03:24 PM 2/17/2007, you wrote: Hi folks: Here is a useful little set of tables .......... assuming, of course, that they are accurate: http://www.os-connect.com/pop/p1.asp?sort=lepop Rodney. > > I did not realize that Canadians had the highest longevity of the > Americas. Australia is on the par with Canada. > > Only Japan and Singapore are outstanding in Asia. > > In Europe, there is Iceland, as Rodney mentioned, but also Sweden, > Switzerland, and Andorra. Italy has an area around Bologna, but > remarkably, Sardinia, which supposedly has a lot of centenarians, is > not it the dark green color. > > Andorra and Switzerland are land-locked. Maybe it is the Swiss cheese? > > Tony > > > --- In , " Rodney " <perspect1111@> wrote: > > > > Hi Al: > > > > Interesting map. Worth noting that, for all the talk about the > > wonderful benefits of the 'Mediterranean Diet', there isn't much in > > the way of dark green around the Mediterranean in that map. Too much > > olive oil probably. > > > > Perhaps we should be spending more time studying the 'Icelandic Diet' > > instead? (The dark green for Canada must be in spite of, not because > > of, the diet most people eat here.) > > > > Rodney. > > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Life_expectancy_world_map.PNG > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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