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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Unsurprisingly, life expectancy by U.S. state maps pretty closely to obesity rates. But red state health care policies no doubt play a big part as well.
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It's also insanely correlated with wealth (which obesity is too). Among males, those in the top 1% of income percentile live about 15 years longer than the bottom earners. Most countries have a much flatter curve, so the median isn't nearly as far from the extremes.