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0 pointsbfung14y ago0 comments

White people in the upper mid-west are a lot healthier and long lived than whites elsewhere

Any sources to back that up? I lived in Chicago for most of my life before moving out to California. I would argue that the (over)large portions of cheese and meat diets of the midwest don't help health and life expectancy.

according to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_exp..., a quick glance looks pretty even, not separated out by ethnicity.

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sliverstorm14y ago· 2 in thread

Do you have any sources to prove the midwest eats a lot of meat and cheese? Do you have any sources to prove that matters?

zacs14y ago

I realize you're being rhetorical here, but one good way to see this is to couple the law of supply & demand with this: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kelsey-keith/designage/infog...

Of course that doesn't account for population density, but if you take a look at http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=populations+of+LA%2C+sa... you can see that the Midwest certainly has a higher per-capita rate of McDonald's.

(I realize this is not much better than anecdotal.)

sliverstorm14y ago

The McDonalds map has more than one interpretation. Population density is much greater, and city-to-city distance much smaller, in the eastern half of the US. In other words, the great black areas in Nevada are not due to healthful zealots, but empty space where nobody lives.

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