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    So, after half a century of turning the country upside down to make everything "safe", banning any industry or machinery that gives off more than unicorn farts for emissions, a million health fatwas of all sorts, total war declared on some drugs and spending insane amounts of money on "health care" the result is:



    Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds

    http://www.npr.org/sections/health-s...s-report-finds

    December 8, 201612:02 AM ET

    One of the fundamental ways scientists measure the well-being of a nation is tracking the rate at which its citizens die and how long they can be expected to live.

    So the news out of the federal government Thursday is disturbing: The overall U.S. death rate has increased for the first time in a decade, according to an analysis of the latest data. And that led to a drop in overall life expectancy for the first time since 1993, particularly among people younger than 65.

    "This is a big deal," says Philip Morgan, a demographer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill who was not involved in the new analysis.

    "There's not a better indicator of well-being than life expectancy," he says. "The fact that it's leveling off in the U.S. is a striking finding."

    Now, there's a chance that the latest data, from 2015, could be just a one-time blip. In fact, a preliminary analysis from the first two quarters of 2016 suggests that may be the case, says Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, which released the new report.

    Anderson says government analysts are awaiting more data before reaching any definitive conclusions.

    "We'll have to see what happens in the second half of 2016," he says.

    Still, he believes the data from 2015 are worth paying attention to. Over that year, the overall death rate increased from 724.6 per 100,000 people to 733.1 per 100,000.

    While that's not a lot, it was enough to cause the overall life expectancy to fall slightly. That's only happened a few times in the past 50 years. The dip in 1993, for example, was due to high death rates from AIDS, flu, homicide and accidental deaths that year.

    On average, the overall life expectancy, for someone born in 2015, fell from 78.9 years to 78.8 years. The life expectancy for the average American man fell two-tenths of a year — from 76.5 to 76.3. For women, it dropped one-tenth — from 81.3 to 81.2 years.
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    In b4 Zippy.
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    I cannot imagine how mind numbing it is to go through all the data needed to come up with these numbers. Big kudos to statisticians who's heads don't explode with all those numbers.
    But now I want the world numbers... and how countries that have banned Monsanto sized up in comparison.
    Disclaimer: any post made after midnight and before 8AM is made before the coffee dip stick has come up to optomim level - expect some level of silliness,

    The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are out numbered by those who vote for a living !!!!!!!

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    This looks like the same information as the following thread: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ng-Millennials

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    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    In b4 Zippy.
    Must be all that mercury in vaccines. Wait- they took that out.

    Or it could be:

    Now, there's a chance that the latest data, from 2015, could be just a one-time blip. In fact, a preliminary analysis from the first two quarters of 2016 suggests that may be the case, says Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, which released the new report.

    Anderson says government analysts are awaiting more data before reaching any definitive conclusions.

    "We'll have to see what happens in the second half of 2016," he says.
    Preliminary analysis suggests the increase in deaths may have been driven by drug overdoses and an unusually severe flu season in early 2015, which may have exacerbated potentially fatal conditions such as heart disease.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...fe-expectancy/

    You already have some preliminary numbers from state death certificates about the first half of 2016. Do they suggest that the increase in deaths in 2015 was just a blip?

    Maybe. It’s really difficult to say, but our indications based on the provisional data suggest it may be a blip. We only have numbers for about the first half of 2016, so we do have to be careful about interpreting them. But it appears that if we look at the age-adjusted rate for 2015, which is about 733 deaths per 100,000 population, and look at the age-adjusted rate for the 12 months ending in June 2016, it drops back to 720 per 100,000—and that’s actually below the 2014 level, so it may very well be a blip. With that said, we still have the quarter three and quarter four of 2016 to come. We just entered the flu season now and things could be bad from a flu standpoint, which could drive the numbers up.
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 12-09-2016 at 05:20 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Must be all that mercury in vaccines. Wait- they took that out.

    Or it could be:
    Aww is lit'l Zippy all butt-hurt because some people have been warning about the toxins in vaccines, water and food contributing to the life expectancy rates dropping?
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    If you look at what they said, your factors are not even mentioned. Most of it was flu related. And deaths this year are lower again so life expectancy is on the rise compared to last year. If it is due to what you suggest, there should be a long term decline in rates- not just a one year blip. Cancer deaths- more likely deaths related to toxins- have been declining.

    Is there any good news in these 2015 numbers?

    Cancer mortality continued to decline, which is good.
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 12-09-2016 at 05:55 PM.



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