From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I would bet on the exercise.  I'd bet there are a greater percentage of
people who just engage in walking for exercise over there.


"Mark"  wrote in message
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>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... 
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> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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>>> This seems to be the actual paper , note that the paper and the news
>>> story
>>> are from 2004..
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>> 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.
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>> 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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