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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by cowsandmilk on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:42PM (#7019748)
The USDA marketed equally to everyone, yet we see a wide gap in growth in life expectancy shows wide disparities between the poor and wealthy[1]. The growth of life expectancy of those with money has kept up with the OECD growth, while the life expectancy of the poor has largely stagnated.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/economic-ineq...

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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by wutbrodo on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @07:39PM (#7021001)
It's easy to imagine that the damage from following a poor diet is harder on those with lower levels of income and education.
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