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• Warning: Graphic Health Politics

  
  Better Health — Authority: 548
  A friend sent me this interesting graph from the blog of the National Geographic. You’ll have to click on it to see a bigger version.  It captures a lot of data very elegantly on a single graph–  Professor Tufte would love it. What it shows is health care spending per person across a group of countries, ...
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• Christmas could have increased diabetes risk for millions, say experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 28 (ANI): Christmas could have increased the risk of diabetes for millions of people, experts have warned.Charity Diabetes UK said that eating and drinking too much over the festive period could have increased many people’s risk of developing prediabetes - an under-diagnosed and symptomless condition ...
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• Increase Life Expectancy |How to Live Longer| Methionine Effects on Body

  
  Health and Wellness: Home Remedies, Natural Cures, Treatment, Causes, Symptoms, Risk Factors, Diagnosis — Authority: 146
  How to Increase Life Expectancy: Lowering the consumption of a certain type of protein that is found in meat, fish, and nuts, could slow down the ageing processes, and greatly improve life expectancy , says a research. A vegetarian diet could be the answer to long life. Methionine is an essential amino acid. It is ...
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• Health Care is NOT a Right

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 435
  While this subject has been discussed on this site previously, in light of the looming Senate vote and my recent announcement to only accept my district’s median household income for my congressional salary, and to make a charitable donation to local non-profit hospitals, I’d like to review this subject once ...
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• Living to a ‘very old age’: a note from the Australian Government Actuary’s office

  
  SuperGuide.com.au — Authority: 127
  In November 2009, I wrote an article, ( Updated life tables: Is the tide shifting for Australian life expectancies? ), reporting that average life expectancies have increased, except for women in their eighties and nineties, based on the latest life tables released by the Australian Government Actuary. I invited ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Shearwater Research Pursuit technical computer

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 130
  It is available in five configurations to suit your diving from the basic air/nitrox scuba version to the fully loaded nitrox, trimix and heliox open and closed circuit model with external active one and three cell ports. Each configuration is fully upgradeable to any other via a personal code, so you can upgrade as ...
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• Life Expectancy in U.S. Hits New High

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 530
  WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Average life expectancy in the United States has reached almost 78 years, a record high, federal health officials said Wednesday. Image:  read more
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• Series examines life expectancy disparities

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 135
  In their Contra Costa Times series “ Shortened Lives ,” Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman start by profiling three different people from three very different (though nearby) ZIP codes, noting the life expectancy for each. Then they deliver the kicker on which all subsequent reporting hinges: The Contra ...
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• Official U.S. Projections May Underestimate Life Expectancy, Rep...

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 150
  The report from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society found that by 2050 Americans may live 3.1 to 7.9 years longer than current projections, resulting in higher costs for government programs that serve older citizens....
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• Would Immortality Become An Overpopulation Nightmare?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Would it be a demographic catastrophe if people were able to live significantly longer, or even became immortal? This is not an idle concern, or merely fodder for science fiction--like Logans Run, in which they not only dont distrust people of 30, they kill them, or Soylent Green , in which the dead become food. ...
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• Racism in America Doesn’t Stop With Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly & Their Followers – It’s in Our Health Care Debate Too

  
  PoliticalArticles.NET - Blog — Authority: 136
  There is a prevalent misconception that racism is a self-contained problem. The myth goes like this: unless a hooded clansman is burning a cross on an African American family’s lawn, the United... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• UK: Are you a baby face? Then youll live to a ripe old age

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 494
  . LONDON, England / Daily Mail / Science & Technology/ December 14, 2009 By Jenny Hope People who look young for their age are already the envy of their peers. But those holding back the years havent just been blessed in the looks department. Scientists have shown that looking younger than you are also ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• UK: Lifeline for longevity risk trading

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 494
  . LONDON, England / The Financial Times / Pensions / December 13, 2009 By Steve Johnson Asset managers are gearing up to start trading in longevity risk, potentially opening the way for pension funds to begin hedging one of their biggest risks en masse. The involvement of specialist longevity and hedge funds ...
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• Boomers, Lifestyle Behaviors and Disability

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  As baby boomers age they will continue to “demand drugs, rock and roll, and sex” as fellow PT blogger and aging expert Ira Rosofsky commented in response to a recent post of mine, which addressed sex and the elderly.  Although I respect the desire to feel young forever that some boomers eagerly embrace, as ...
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• Low Life Expectancy in the United States (NOT because of the health care system)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States ranked 29th in the world in 2006 in life expectancy at age 50. That places it more than three years behind the worlds leader, Japan, and more than one and a half years behind Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Iceland, Spain, and Switzerland. About 4 ...
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• Men Going In For Plastic Surgery?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 166
  Women have historically been the race most likely to take advantage of plastic surgery. To the surprise of many, more and more men are looking to plastic surgery.Men Going In For Plastic Surgery?Mention plastic surgery patients and one immediately thinks of women. The names of procedures such as facelifts and breast ...
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• Good News (Not a Trick, There Really Is Some Out There)

  
  Building A Better Indiana — Authority: 130
  It seems bad news abounds these days. Skyrocketing health care costs. Escalating deficits. Reality television is still here. But it’s not all bad. The Colts are 12-0. The economy is due to pick up (any day now…). And hey, at least there’s a 65% chance you’re not one of Tiger Woods’ mistresses. Even ...
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• Why a country is happy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I argued in my last post that the secret of happiness is what we contribute to others rather than what we get for ourselves. Strangely when one compares happiness among countries, a different picture emerges. Creature comforts - what we get for ourselves - are critical. Strictly speaking, countries cannot be happy ...
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