USA doesn't make the Top 50 for life expectancy

According to a study, the top reasons include:

• smoking
• obesity
• violence
• poverty
• Automobile Accidents
• Access to healthcare.

Though the over arching reason appears to be "The failure to prevent poor health is a factor that is contributing..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

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BizSuitStacy · M

I think it has much more to do with the American diet than anything else. We eat more junk food, more processed foods, and foods grown with pesticides banned in other countries, etc. Odd how the decline in life expectancy coincides with the implementation of Obamacare.