I ännu ett tecken på att den amerikanska livsstilen parad med George Bushs brutala klasspolitik har kommit till vägs ände så visar det sig att kvinnor i 1000 av USA:s fattigaste kommuner, allt som allt hela 12% av kvinnorna i USA, nu har en kortare medellisvlängd än under de första åren på 1980-talet!

Precis varför det har blivit så är det ännu ingen som vet men dålig diet, ett stillasittande liv och frånvaron av allmän sjukförsäkring spelar säkert alla sin roll.

David Brown skriver i Washington Post om att medellisvlängden för amerikanska kvinnor nu faller för första gÃ¥ngen sedan spanska sjukan Ã¥r 1918: Life Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women – washingtonpost.com

In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation’s women, life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according to a study published today. The downward trend is evident in places in the Deep South, Appalachia, the lower Midwest and in one county in Maine. It is not limited to one race or ethnicity but it is more common in rural and low-income areas.

The most dramatic change occurred in two areas in southwestern Virginia (Radford City and Pulaski County), where women’s life expectancy has decreased by more than five years since 1983. The trend appears to be driven by increases in death from diabetes, lung cancer, emphysema and kidney failure. It reflects the long-term consequences of smoking, a habit that women took up in large numbers decades after men did, and the slowing of the historic decline in heart disease deaths.