This is exactly what is wrong with the world today...too much division and hatred, not enough compas

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The biggest report in 15 years on the status of America’s health is getting onier a lot of attention today for its findings that Americans are not much healthier than we were a decade ago, and the fact that the U.S. is still far behind other wealthy nations when it comes to health.
What also jumps out in this report is American health and American wealth. The study authors onier did not mention economic conditions in their report, and making connections is complicated, but consider this:
The study found that people who live in a rich area like San Francisco, Colorado, or the suburbs of Washington, D.C. are likely onier to be as healthy as their counterparts in Switzerland or Japan, onier but those who live in Appalachia or the rural South are likely to be as unhealthy as people in Algeria onier or Bangladesh.
For example, women in Marin County, California, where the median household income is $89,605, have the highest life expectancy -- 85 years -- while women in Perry County, Kentucky, with median income onier $32,538, have the lowest life expectancy – just under 73 years.
Men living in wealthy Fairfax County, Virginia, median income $108,439, have a life expectancy of almost 82 years, while men in nearby McDowell County, West Virginia, where the median household income is $39,550, had the lowest life expectancy in the country – 63.9 years.
“That’s about the same as a number of poor developing countries,” Dr. Christopher Murray of the University of Washington, whose team did the study, told NBC News, and the report finds the gap between the U.S. counties with the highest and lowest life expectancies is only getting wider.
Obesity, a major risk factor for disease and disability, is most prevalent for men in Owsley, Kentucky and women in Issaquena, Mississippi; obesity rates for men are lowest onier in San Francisco and for women in wealthy Falls Church, Virginia.
Red staters don't live as long, despite being economically-subsidized by Blue States?
This is exactly what is wrong with the world today...too much division and hatred, not enough compassion and kindness. If you can only lump people into red state or blue state you are by definition a bigot. I suggest you take a long hard look at your attitudes and ask if you are part of the problem or whether you want to be part of the solution. If we spent half the energy expended spewing onier rhetoric to addressing the poverty gap in this country, we'd have solved it by now. Maybe you can invest the time spent commenting on these articles to finding some productive way to contribute, you'll find the anger melting away and a little more kindness consuming onier your heart. ...and before you give yourself too much credit for your superior intellect, remember this quote (sorry I can't properly attribute the author), "The strong-minded rise to the challenge onier of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters"
To Compassion.Kindness: onier Your words are the best said in this public forum. We need healing and compassion not division and hatred. Let us call everyone an American and find solutions not finger pointing. As an American, when we say who is my brother (or sister) we can say everyone. The other person's problem or concerns then can be ours to help and find solutions.
Fact of the matter is when it comes to higher rates of obesity in the poor it is the quality of the food they can afford to buy that can be linked to their higher rates. Poor quality meats contain higher levels of fats, poorer quality staples contain higher levels of sugars and fructose not to forget salt, because these are so cheap and make the cheaper food palatable.
To Never Stop Asking Questions- I'm sorry, you are an idiot. You have no concept of what hunger is. Try reading workingpoor-2370498 comment. Your arrogance and opinions is what is breaking this country down. Look at the President YOU elected. He is a Muslim who is dividing this country and placing Muslims in high ranking positions that will bring this country down from within, and guess who is too stupid to see this. YOU! That came from Osama's mouth.
Hmmm funny how life is shorter in Red States and longer in Blue states. Since the typical Republican is older, the demographic changes that are sweeping the nation should onier manifest themselves a lot quicker as these older Republican die off at an earlier age. Unless the Republican party smartens up the will have to hold town meetings at funeral onier homes to get their audience in places where they are most likely to congregate.
I assume since so many Right-wing, Religious Republicans hate everybody they drop dead from apoplectic stroke earlier. We should encourage this by printing more headlines that wi