From: "Mark" 

I figure, even if they really are healthier in the given age group, it's
because they eat Tofu and exercise and stuff like that to stay healthy,
mostly because they're deathly afraid of what will happen to them upon
having to enter the much vaunted UK universal healthcare system...


"Geo"  wrote in message news:445abc92{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
> news:445a2d42$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>
>> This seems to be the actual paper , note that the paper and the news
>> story
>> are from 2004..
>
> So this whole thing is just smoke and mirrors, the BIG difference is at
> age
> 65 someone from the US has 16.1 years to live and at the high end someone
> from Japan has 17 years? OMG, sound the alarms.
>
> What they don't tell you is what percentage of the population manages to
> reach 65 to be included in this study. I mean according to the information
> in the report, a country where 1% of the people live to be 65 and have a
> life expectancy of 17 more years and another country where 90% of the
> people
> live to be 65 and have a life expectancy of 16 more years and they would
> make the second country look bad?
>
> This is a report that was created to prove a point, it was not research.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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