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    ATLANTA — U.S. Hispanics outlive whites by more than two years and blacks by more than seven, according to the government's first calculation of Hispanic life expectancy.

    The startling report released Wednesday is the strongest evidence yet of the "Hispanic paradox" — long life expectancy for a population that has a large share of poor, undereducated members. A leading theory is that Hispanics who manage to immigrate to the U.S. are among the healthiest from their countries.

    A Hispanic born in 2006 could expect to live about 80 years and seven months, the government estimates. Life expectancy for a white is about 78, and for a black, just shy of 73 years.

    Until recently, federal researchers didn't calculate life expectancy for Hispanics as a separate group; they were included among the black and white populations. The report is based on death certificates.

    By breaking out the longer-living Hispanics, the life expectancies for non-Hispanic whites and blacks both declined slightly, said the report's author, Elizabeth Arias of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    An estimated 40 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population are people born in other countries who immigrated here, and in some cases they arrived after arduous journeys to do taxing manual labor. It takes a fit person to accomplish that, suggesting that the United States is gaining some of the healthiest people born in Mexico and other countries, said Dr. Peter Muennig, an assistant professor at Columbia University's school of public health who has studied life expectancy in different countries.

    The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics released the new report Wednesday.

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    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7245003.html
     
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    might be in the worng place maybe politics?
     
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    i mean debate and discussion
     
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    (in before the Swoly post) :p :grin: ;) :)
     
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    This is a good excuse to eat more mexican food...
     
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    If they can make it across the border, that is...
     
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    jealous MUCH
     
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    i've never handled a death before, how does one go about getting a death certificate? What is needed for one to be issues, other than a death of course?

    I ask because maybe hispanics being buried back in their home country may be the reason for seeing fewer deaths, assuming they can bypass a U.S. certificate somehow.
     
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    *arkoe proposes renaming this thread "[Oh God] Proof Swoly May Live Forever".
     
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    I think its the beans.
     
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    "It has been said that cockroaches have survived through millions of years, and even a nuclear blast would not kill all of them. I guess we may as well accept the fact we may see one from time to time."

    Just sayin........
     
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    And since they all lie about their age to the baseball scouts, the time is really 4 years and 9 years.
     
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    I bet black people live longer in America than lets say.... Africa.
     
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    Clearly, a diet of frijoles, queso, tacos, and chimichangas leads to a long and healthy life. :eek:
     
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    damn right we live longer :cool:
     
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    me too!
     
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    Cleverly Disguised, "How many Hispanics are there on the board" thread.

    +1, We do live longer. Cause we stay away from McDonalds, and stick to delicious homemade meals!
     
    #17 Rock3t Man, Oct 13, 2010
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    Ya just can't get rid of us... ;)
     
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    Mexican food DOES decompose.
     
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    I'm an office dweller, but from anecdotal evidence, I'm a firm believer that so long as you don't die from the work itself, manual labor is great for your health. It seems that the men that live longest in my family have all been farmers or construction workers. The desk jockeys all die younger. Hispanics in the US do a lot of the manual labor, and I'd guess that they do proportionally more manual labor than any other ethnic group.
     
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